Huntington Farm, Little Wenlock
IndustrialInert
Huntington Farm, Little Wenlock is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Telford, Telford and Wrekin. It received industrial and inert waste between 1969 and 1980, covering about 2.51 hectares. Reference EAHLD24315, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24315 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Huntington Farm, Little Wenlock |
| Address | Huntington Farm, Limekiln Lane, New Works Lane, Little Wenlock, Telford, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Birlee Industrial Limited |
| Licence issued | 17 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 July 1980 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1969 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.51 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 365800, 308100 |
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
- SmalleyhillSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Coppice House, HuntingtonIndustrialInert
- Coalmoor North OCCSInert
- Horsehay PoolWaste types not recorded
- Land off Coalbrookdale roadWaste types not recorded
- Johnston Pipes Limited, DoseleyIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.