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Historic landfill sites in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

The Environment Agency records 23 historic landfill sites in and around Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. covering roughly 83 hectares in total. The largest is Warwick Road Refuse Tip at 27.36 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Stratford-upon-Avon (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Warwick Road Refuse Tip27.36 ha1971IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Burton Farm Landfill Site18.13 ha1993SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
High Close Farm7.95 ha1991Inert
Off Birmingham Road6.3 ha1989Inert
Songar Grange3.72 ha1995Inert
Paddock Lane Refuse Tip3.13 haIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Grange Road, Bearley/Field O S Pt 3572 in the Parish of Bearley2.36 haWaste types not recorded
Messrs Hanks and Terry2.08 ha1979Waste types not recorded
Blackhill2.03 ha1981Inert
Ex Ordinance Depot/Old Ordnance Depot, Banbury Road1.57 ha1988Inert
The Elms Camp Caravan Park1.4 ha1985Inert
Luddington Cutting Landfill Site1.34 ha1988Inert
Goldicote Railway Cutting1.16 ha1993Inert
The Moat0.83 ha1987Inert
Church Lane - Alcester Road0.68 haWaste types not recorded
Shipston Road0.5 haWaste types not recorded
Harris0.49 haInert
Land at the Former Coldstore Site, Near Alcester Road0.48 haInert
Norton Lindsey0.46 ha1986Inert
Evesham Road0.42 ha1987IndustrialInert
Bishopton Hill Nursery0.2 ha1987Inert
Land adjacent to Aston Cantlow Road0.2 haWaste types not recorded
Land adjacent to Aston Cantlow Road0.14 haHousehold

What this data does — and doesn't — cover

  • Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
  • Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
  • Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
  • Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.

EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Stratford-upon-Avon?
23 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Stratford-upon-Avon town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
How do I check a specific address in Stratford-upon-Avon?
Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

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Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.