Upton Forge Farm
Inert
Upton Forge Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shrewsbury, Shropshire. It received inert waste in 1991, covering about 2.7 hectares. Reference EAHLD24283, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24283 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Upton Forge Farm |
| Address | Land at Upton Forge Farm, Upton Magna, Shrewsbury, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Alfred McAlpine Limited |
| Licence issued | 21 January 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 2 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 22 January 1991 |
| Last waste input | 31 August 1991 |
| Area | 2.7 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 356000, 311600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
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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.