Clerks Bank, Llangollen Canal
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Clerks Bank, Llangollen Canal is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ellesmere, Shropshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1989 and 1994, covering about 1.15 hectares. Reference EAHLD30322, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD30322 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Clerks Bank, Llangollen Canal |
| Address | Llangollen Canal, Near Bridge 56, Canal and Burns Wood, East of Blakemere, Near Ellesmere, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Waterways |
| Licence issued | 10 February 1993 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1994 |
| Area | 1.15 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 342100, 333600 |
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
- Wood Lane Old SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Wood Lane Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- The MoorsInert
- Birch Road, EllesmereHousehold
- Ellesmere SwanhillHousehold
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.