Landfill Check

Ebley Refuse Tip

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Ebley Refuse Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stonehouse, Gloucestershire. It received industrial and commercial waste between 1968 and 1973, covering about 5.63 hectares. Reference EAHLD27814, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD27814
Site nameEbley Refuse Tip
AddressOil Mills Lane, Ebley, Stroud, Gloucestershire
Site operatorStroud Rural District Council
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input30 April 1968
Last waste input13 October 1973
Area5.63 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaLower Severn MI
Grid reference382200, 204500

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.
Commercial:
waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.

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.