Devil's Dingle Landfill
Industrial
Devil's Dingle Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Much Wenlock, Shropshire. It received industrial waste between 2015 and 2017, covering about 40.9 hectares. Reference EAHLD36041, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD36041 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Devil's Dingle Landfill |
| Address | Buildwas Road,Buildwas,Telford,Shropshire |
| Site operator | Uniper U K Limited |
| Licence holder | Uniper U K Limited |
| Licence issued | 17 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 December 2017 |
| First waste input | 30 September 2015 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 40.9 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Shrops Heref Worcs and Glos |
| Grid reference | 363620, 304843 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Church Farm BuildwasInert
- Home Farm, BuildwasIndustrialInert
- Land off Coalbrookdale roadWaste types not recorded
- Ironbridge AIndustrial
- Field 7432 Adjacent To Ironbridge BypassInert
- Little Hill FarmWaste 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.