Ellerdine Heath Railway Cutting
IndustrialInert
Ellerdine Heath Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Market Drayton, Shropshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1982 and 1991, covering about 1.03 hectares. Reference EAHLD30317, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD30317 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ellerdine Heath Railway Cutting |
| Address | North of Station Cottage, Ellerdine, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | M J Cartwright Esquire |
| Licence issued | 11 May 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 January 1992 |
| First waste input | 30 September 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 January 1991 |
| Area | 1.03 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 362600, 322100 |
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 Railway CuttingWaste types not recorded
- Ellerdine Heath Phase 3IndustrialInert
- Ellerdine Heath Phase 2IndustrialInert
- Railway CuttingInert
- Field South Of Mount Farm, Little BolasIndustrialInert
- Yew Tree House Farm Landfill Site/Railway Cutting Yew Tree HouseIndustrialCommercialInert
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.