Landfill Check

Oswestry Bypass / Field to North Of Queens Head

Inert

Oswestry Bypass / Field to North Of Queens Head is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Croesoswallt, Shropshire. It received inert waste between 1984 and 1986, covering about 2.05 hectares. Reference EAHLD30388, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD30388
Site nameOswestry Bypass / Field to North Of Queens Head
AddressField to North Of Queens Head, Oswestry
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderTarmac Construction
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1984
Last waste input31 December 1986
Area2.05 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaUpper Severn MI
Grid reference333700, 326900

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.