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Old Brick Yard, Old Wood, Bomere Heath

Household

Old Brick Yard, Old Wood, Bomere Heath is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shrewsbury, Shropshire. It received household waste between 1954 and 1965, covering about 1.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD30366, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD30366
Site nameOld Brick Yard, Old Wood, Bomere Heath
AddressOld Brick Yard, Old Wood, Bomere Heath, Shropshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderAtcham Rural District Council
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input24 September 1954
Last waste input31 December 1965
Area1.62 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaUpper Severn MI
Grid reference345500, 320300

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Household:
everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.

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.