Old Worcester Road Tip
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Old Worcester Road Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bridgnorth, Shropshire. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1958 and 1984, covering about 4.59 hectares. Reference EAHLD31519, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD31519 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Worcester Road Tip |
| Address | Spring Valley Farm, Old Worcester Road, Bridgnorth, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Bridgnorth Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Shropshire County Council |
| Licence issued | 31 January 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 November 1992 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1958 |
| Last waste input | 16 February 1984 |
| Area | 4.59 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 373200, 292000 |
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.
- 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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Lawson Mardon Star Limited LandfillIndustrialInert
- Hermitage Heights, BridgnorthHousehold
- Fairfields, Oldbury RoadInert
- Lamphey House, BridgnorthIndustrialInert
- Bridgnorth GasholderInert
- Stanley Lane, BridgnorthLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
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.