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M5 Land, Rashwood Junction, Wychbold

IndustrialInert

M5 Land, Rashwood Junction, Wychbold is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1985 and 1987, covering about 2.91 hectares. Reference EAHLD27991, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD27991
Site nameM5 Land, Rashwood Junction, Wychbold
AddressRashwood Junction, Wychbold, Droitwich, Worcestershire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderA Monk and Company Limited
Licence issued19 July 1985
Licence surrendered30 April 1994
First waste input31 July 1985
Last waste input31 July 1987
Area2.91 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Severn MI
Grid reference391700, 265200

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

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.