Landfill Check

Wayford Hill, Dorrington

Inert

Wayford Hill, Dorrington is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shrewsbury, Shropshire. It received inert waste between 1984 and 1987, covering about 1.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD24339, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD24339
Site nameWayford Hill, Dorrington
AddressWayford Hill, Dorrington, Near Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderV Evason Esquire
Licence issued25 March 1982
Licence surrendered21 October 1989
First waste input2 August 1984
Last waste input16 October 1987
Area1.04 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Severn MI
Grid reference347600, 304000

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.