Ironbridge A
Industrial
Ironbridge A is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Broseley, Shropshire. It received industrial waste between 1990 and 2009, covering about 18.47 hectares. Reference EAHLD35680, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35680 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ironbridge A |
| Address | Buildwas Road, Ironbridge, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Ironbridge A |
| Licence holder | Ironbridge A |
| Licence issued | 6 June 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 23 June 2009 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 18.47 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn |
| Grid reference | 365568, 304112 |
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
- Home Farm, BuildwasIndustrialInert
- Field 7432 Adjacent To Ironbridge BypassInert
- Coalbrookdale WorksIndustrial
- Lincoln Hill, IronbridgeHousehold
- Devil's Dingle LandfillIndustrial
- Silvertrees LandfillIndustrial
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.