Yew Tree House Farm Landfill Site/Railway Cutting Yew Tree House
IndustrialCommercialInert
Yew Tree House Farm Landfill Site/Railway Cutting Yew Tree House is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Telford, Telford and Wrekin. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1987 and 1991, covering about 0.47 hectares. Reference EAHLD24247, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24247 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Yew Tree House Farm Landfill Site/Railway Cutting Yew Tree House |
| Address | Yew Tree House Farm, Rowton, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr J R Gittins |
| Licence issued | 3 February 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1989 |
| First waste input | 20 June 1987 |
| Last waste input | 20 November 1991 |
| Area | 0.47 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 362600, 319900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Railway CuttingInert
- Ellerdine Heath Phase 2IndustrialInert
- Ellerdine Heath Phase 3IndustrialInert
- Ellerdine Heath Railway CuttingWaste types not recorded
- Ellerdine Heath Railway CuttingIndustrialInert
- Ellerdine Hall Farm, EllerdineWaste 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.