Ellerdine Heath Phase 3
IndustrialInert
Ellerdine Heath Phase 3 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Market Drayton, Shropshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1989 and 1991, covering about 0.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD24243, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24243 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ellerdine Heath Phase 3 |
| Address | Ellerdine Heath, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | M J Cartwright Esquire |
| Licence issued | 13 March 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 January 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 March 1989 |
| Last waste input | 30 September 1991 |
| Area | 0.42 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 362600, 321100 |
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
- Ellerdine Heath Phase 2IndustrialInert
- Ellerdine Heath Railway CuttingWaste types not recorded
- Railway CuttingInert
- Ellerdine Heath Railway CuttingIndustrialInert
- Yew Tree House Farm Landfill Site/Railway Cutting Yew Tree HouseIndustrialCommercialInert
- Ellerdine Hall Farm, EllerdineWaste 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.