Oswestry Gas Works
Inert
Oswestry Gas Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Croesoswallt, Shropshire. It received inert waste between 1981 and 1986, covering about 1.08 hectares. Reference EAHLD30487, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD30487 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Oswestry Gas Works |
| Address | Oswestry Depot, West Midlands Gas, Victoria Road, Oswestry |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | West Midlands Gas |
| Licence issued | 18 May 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 24 October 1986 |
| First waste input | 1 December 1981 |
| Last waste input | 22 October 1986 |
| Area | 1.08 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 329400, 328900 |
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
- Red House Field Landfill SiteSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.