Landfill Check

Merry Brook

IndustrialInert

Merry Brook is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Evesham, Worcestershire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1988 and 1991, covering about 2.64 hectares. Reference EAHLD28087, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD28087
Site nameMerry Brook
AddressHaselor Lane, Evesham, Worcestershire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderStratford Building and Civil Engineering Company Limited
Licence issued2 April 1990
Licence surrendered22 June 2001
First waste input1 December 1988
Last waste input18 July 1991
Area2.64 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaLower Severn MI
Grid reference401600, 242300

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.