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Historic landfill sites in Telford, Telford and Wrekin

The Environment Agency records 57 historic landfill sites in and around Telford, Telford and Wrekin. covering roughly 107 hectares in total. The largest is Ruckley Refuse Tip at 14.25 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Telford (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Ruckley Refuse Tip14.25 ha1985IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Telford Town Park9.58 ha—Waste types not recorded
Mannerly Wood8.65 ha1986IndustrialInert
Beveley Glen, Oakengates7.05 ha1987IndustrialHouseholdInert
Ketley Sands4.41 ha—Waste types not recorded
Smalleyhill4.33 ha1989SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Donnington Wood Land Reclaimation4.18 ha1978IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Lilleshall/Lilleshall Works, Snedshill4.14 ha1981IndustrialHouseholdInert
Ketley Sands3.6 ha1976IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Whitchurch Drive3.25 ha—Waste types not recorded
Knowle Bank House Farm3.24 ha1990Inert
Johnston Pipes Landfill3.15 ha—Waste types not recorded
Bucks Head2.77 ha1992Inert
Withington Close2.64 ha1981IndustrialInert
Donnington Land Reclaimation/Donnington 1 Land Reclaimation, Donnington Wood2.58 ha1982IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Huntington Farm, Little Wenlock2.51 ha—IndustrialInert
Grange Fencing, Tweedale North2.28 ha1980Household
Stirchley Tip, Pitch And Putt Course, Randlay2.15 ha1979Inert
Woodlands Lane2.07 ha1986Liquid / sludgeIndustrial
Johnston Pipes Limited, Doseley2.03 ha1986IndustrialHouseholdInert
Oakengates Leisure Centre1.41 ha—Waste types not recorded
Marrions Hill1.38 ha—Waste types not recorded
The Brick Yard, The Old Site1.31 ha1988IndustrialHouseholdInert
Halesfield West1.16 ha1982IndustrialInert
Rookery Road, St Georges1.12 ha—Household
Beveley Glen0.89 ha1987IndustrialInert
Canongate0.84 ha—IndustrialInert
Sommerfield Road, Trench0.75 ha—Waste types not recorded
Smiths Crescent, Donnington0.75 ha1975Household
Donnington Wood0.65 ha—Household
Newdale Halt open cast workings0.54 ha1989IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
New Testament Church, Holyhead Road0.53 ha1987IndustrialInert
77 Hollyhead Road, Ketley0.52 ha1988Inert
White Hart, Hinkshay Road, Dawley0.48 ha—Waste types not recorded
View House, Ketley0.48 ha1988Inert
Yew Tree House Farm Landfill Site/Railway Cutting Yew Tree House0.47 ha1991IndustrialCommercialInert
Hills Lane Drive, Madeley0.46 ha1970Waste types not recorded
Oakengates Foundry0.45 ha1990IndustrialCommercialInert
Refuse Tip, Tweedale, Land At Tweedale, Caravan Park0.41 ha—Waste types not recorded
Horsehay Pool0.32 ha1990Waste types not recorded
Land At Tweedale Caravan Park0.31 ha1970Waste types not recorded
Langley Crescent0.3 ha—Waste types not recorded
Shrayhill Farm0.28 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hinkshay Road, Dawley0.25 ha1989IndustrialInert
Church Pool0.22 ha—Waste types not recorded
Stafford Park0.21 ha1982Waste types not recorded
Rural District Council Tip0.2 ha1972IndustrialCommercial
Station Fields, Oakengates0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Glen Brook Road, Priorslee0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Old Donnington Brickworks0.2 ha1986HouseholdCommercial
The Rock, Ketley0.2 ha1983HouseholdCommercial
Oakengates Foundry0.19 ha—Waste types not recorded
Dandy Pool, Little Dawley0.17 ha—Household
Freehold Pit Mound, Muxton0.15 ha—Waste types not recorded
Madeley Court School0.12 ha1975Household
Oakengates Foundry, Station Road0.11 ha1990IndustrialCommercial
Maddocks Social Club, Oakengates0.04 ha—Waste types not recorded

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 Telford?
57 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Telford 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 Telford?
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.

Nearby areas

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