Ruckley Refuse Tip
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Ruckley Refuse Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Telford, Telford and Wrekin. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1945 and 1985, covering about 14.25 hectares. Reference EAHLD24324, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24324 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ruckley Refuse Tip |
| Address | Shifnal, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Shropshire County Council |
| Licence holder | Shropshire County Council |
| Licence issued | 31 December 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 November 1992 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1945 |
| Last waste input | 28 February 1985 |
| Area | 14.25 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 377300, 306000 |
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.
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.