Yew Tree Farm Landfill Site
Inert
Yew Tree Farm Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Burntwood, Staffordshire. It received inert waste between 1960 and 1972, covering about 0.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD23333, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23333 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Yew Tree Farm Landfill Site |
| Address | Yew Tree House Farm, Rowton, Chorley, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1960 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1972 |
| Area | 0.48 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 406500, 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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Chorley RoadWaste types not recorded
- Cannock WoodHousehold
- Rugeley Road Landfill SiteWaste 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.