Lilleshall/Lilleshall Works, Snedshill
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Lilleshall/Lilleshall Works, Snedshill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Telford, Telford and Wrekin. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1965 and 1981, covering about 4.14 hectares. Reference EAHLD24306, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24306 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lilleshall/Lilleshall Works, Snedshill |
| Address | Lilleshall, Hollinswood Road, Oakengates, Telford, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Telford Development Corporation |
| Licence issued | 18 January 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 April 1990 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1965 |
| Last waste input | 8 October 1981 |
| Area | 4.14 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 370200, 309600 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Church PoolWaste types not recorded
- Oakengates FoundryIndustrialCommercialInert
- Oakengates FoundryWaste types not recorded
- Oakengates Foundry, Station RoadIndustrialCommercial
- Marrions HillWaste types not recorded
- CanongateIndustrialInert
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.