Old Railway Cutting, Ternhill
Inert
Old Railway Cutting, Ternhill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Market Drayton, Shropshire. It received inert waste in 1987, covering about 0.32 hectares. Reference EAHLD24227, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24227 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Railway Cutting, Ternhill |
| Address | Ternhill, Market Drayton, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Shropshire County Contracting |
| Licence issued | 8 September 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 January 1991 |
| First waste input | 30 September 1987 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Area | 0.32 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 363500, 332300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Lostford Hall FarmLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
- Bletchley, TernhillWaste types not recorded
- Railway Cutting R/O Working Mens Club WollertonWaste types not recorded
- Terminus TipLiquid / sludgeCommercial
- Stoke Heath, London Road, Tern HillLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.