Landfill Check

Bromstead Farm

IndustrialInert

Bromstead Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newport, Telford and Wrekin. It received industrial and inert waste between 1984 and 1986, covering about 0.03 hectares. Reference EAHLD29155, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD29155
Site nameBromstead Farm
AddressField Number 1580, Near Newport, Staffordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderMr C C Gough
Licence issued26 October 1984
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input26 October 1984
Last waste input9 September 1986
Area0.03 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Severn MI
Grid reference381100, 316700

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Industrial:
factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.