Shallowford Farm
IndustrialInert
Shallowford Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stone, Staffordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1993 and 1999, covering about 0.3 hectares. Reference EAHLD29149, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD29149 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Shallowford Farm |
| Address | Shallowford Farm, Shallowford, Stone, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Mr R Hopley |
| Licence holder | Roger Hopley |
| Licence issued | 8 April 1993 |
| Licence surrendered | 9 September 1999 |
| First waste input | 9 January 1993 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.3 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 388200, 329200 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Half Head FarmIndustrialCommercial
- Norton FarmHousehold
- Elmhurst FarmIndustrialCommercialInert
- Land Near Norton BridgeWaste types not recorded
- Walton Bank FarmIndustrialCommercial
- Cold Norton Refuse TipHousehold
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.