The Rock, Ketley
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The Rock, Ketley is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Telford, Telford and Wrekin. It received household and commercial waste between 1961 and 1983, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD30488, 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 | EAHLD30488 |
|---|---|
| Site name | The Rock, Ketley |
| Address | The Rock, Toll Mande Lane, Ketley, Telford, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wellings Brothers |
| Licence issued | 30 December 1999 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1961 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 367300, 310000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Newdale Halt open cast workingsIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Mannerly WoodIndustrialInert
- 77 Hollyhead Road, KetleyInert
- New Testament Church, Holyhead RoadIndustrialInert
- View House, KetleyInert
- Ketley SandsWaste 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.