Landfill Check

Historic landfill sites in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire

The Environment Agency records 7 historic landfill sites in and around Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire. covering roughly 2 hectares in total. The largest is Studley Tunnel, Woodrow Farm at 1.01 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Studley Tunnel, Woodrow Farm1.01 ha1990Inert
Maygrove Farm0.54 ha1987IndustrialInert
Collybrook Green0.31 haInert
1 Burford Cottages0.23 haInert
Hope Bagot Landfill0.22 ha1990Inert
Burford Mill Farm0.08 haInert
Boraston Lane0.03 haInert

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 Tenbury Wells?
7 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Tenbury Wells 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 Tenbury Wells?
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.