The Old Quarry, Cardeston, Ford
Waste types not recorded
The Old Quarry, Cardeston, Ford is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shrewsbury, Shropshire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1945 and 1965, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD30449, 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 | EAHLD30449 |
|---|---|
| Site name | The Old Quarry, Cardeston, Ford |
| Address | The Old Quarry, Cardeston, Ford, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Atcham Rural District Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1945 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1965 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 339500, 312500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land at FordWaste types not recorded
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.