Oakengates Foundry
IndustrialCommercialInert
Oakengates Foundry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Telford, Telford and Wrekin. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1950 and 1990, covering about 0.45 hectares. Reference EAHLD24296, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24296 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Oakengates Foundry |
| Address | Station Road, Telford, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Oakengates Foundry Limited |
| Licence issued | 7 April 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 January 1988 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1950 |
| Last waste input | 6 April 1990 |
| Area | 0.45 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 369800, 310300 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Oakengates FoundryWaste types not recorded
- Oakengates Foundry, Station RoadIndustrialCommercial
- CanongateIndustrialInert
- Maddocks Social Club, OakengatesWaste types not recorded
- Church PoolWaste types not recorded
- Marrions HillWaste 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.