Polesgate, Pontesbury Hill
Waste types not recorded
Polesgate, Pontesbury Hill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Church Stretton, Shropshire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1985 and 1990, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD30512, 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 | EAHLD30512 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Polesgate, Pontesbury Hill |
| Address | Polesgate, Pontesbury Hill, Pontesbury, Near Shrewsbury, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr S Price |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 339400, 304900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
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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.