Knowle Bank House Farm
Inert
Knowle Bank House Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Telford, Telford and Wrekin. It received inert waste between 1988 and 1990, covering about 3.24 hectares. Reference EAHLD24310, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24310 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Knowle Bank House Farm |
| Address | Houghton House Farm, West Ley, Knowle Bank, Shifnal, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | E G Baylis Esquire |
| Licence issued | 14 March 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 March 1988 |
| Last waste input | 31 October 1990 |
| Area | 3.24 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 373200, 308700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Stafford ParkWaste types not recorded
- Glen Brook Road, PriorsleeWaste 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.