Historic landfill sites in Worcester, Worcestershire
The Environment Agency records 26 historic landfill sites in and around Worcester, Worcestershire. covering roughly 99 hectares in total. The largest is Hallow Road Refuse Tip at 21.92 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Worcester (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hallow Road Refuse Tip | 21.92 ha | 1985 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Bilford Road Depot | 13.68 ha | 1974 | Household |
| Diglis Landfill Site, Diglis, Worcester | 12.7 ha | 1969 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Diglis Playing Fields, Diglis, Worcester | 6.41 ha | 1950 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Napleton Farm | 6.22 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Laser Engineering | 6.04 ha | 1996 | Inert |
| Borrow Pits A and B | 5.29 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Holt Landfill | 4.79 ha | 1993 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Land at Crookbarrow Farm | 3.77 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Norton Barracks | 3.68 ha | 1993 | IndustrialInert |
| Church Farm Quarry, Grimley | 2.44 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Dilmore Lane, Fernhill Heath | 1.92 ha | 1973 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Bracken Close | 1.69 ha | 1966 | Waste types not recorded |
| Worcester Norton Sports Club | 1.42 ha | 1987 | Inert |
| Bransford Court | 1.33 ha | 1980 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Manor Farm | 1.31 ha | 1979 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Ball Mill | 0.83 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Diglis Dock Road | 0.72 ha | — | Inert |
| Malvern Parish Council | 0.62 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Masonic Hall | 0.53 ha | 1978 | Industrial |
| Glendale | 0.5 ha | — | Inert |
| Morganite Victorian refuse tip | 0.35 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Porter's Mill Lane | 0.34 ha | — | Household |
| The Nash | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Stanier Road | 0.18 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Otherton Farm | 0.11 ha | 1986 | Inert |
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 Worcester?
- 26 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Worcester 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 Worcester?
- 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.