Old Donnington Brickworks
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Old Donnington Brickworks is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Telford, Telford and Wrekin. It received household and commercial waste between 1979 and 1986, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD34095, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD34095 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Donnington Brickworks |
| Address | Telford, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Telford Container and Waste Services Limited |
| Licence issued | 19 January 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1993 |
| First waste input | 12 February 1979 |
| Last waste input | 10 April 1986 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 371000, 311400 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Rookery Road, St GeorgesHousehold
- Donnington WoodHousehold
- Marrions HillWaste types not recorded
- Donnington Land Reclaimation/Donnington 1 Land Reclaimation, Donnington WoodIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Donnington Wood Land ReclaimationIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Smiths Crescent, DonningtonHousehold
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.