The Old Mill, Cound
Inert
The Old Mill, Cound is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Much Wenlock, Shropshire. It received inert waste in 1987, covering about 0.3 hectares. Reference EAHLD24329, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24329 |
|---|---|
| Site name | The Old Mill, Cound |
| Address | Coundarbour Farm, Cound, Shrewsbury, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | G A Watterson Esquire |
| Licence issued | 3 February 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 23 May 1990 |
| First waste input | 23 March 1987 |
| Last waste input | 15 April 1987 |
| Area | 0.3 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 355600, 305500 |
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
- Land At CoundHousehold
- Cross Houses, Junction of Pitchford Road and Wenlock TurnWaste types not recorded
- Gypsy Site Cross HousesHouseholdCommercial
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.