Treflach Quarry
Industrial
Treflach Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Croesoswallt, Shropshire. It received industrial waste between 1930 and 1994, covering about 1.08 hectares. Reference EAHLD30462, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD30462 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Treflach Quarry |
| Address | Treflach Quarry, Oswestry, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Salop County Council |
| Licence holder | Shropshire County Council |
| Licence issued | 20 September 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 15 February 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1930 |
| Last waste input | 31 May 1994 |
| Area | 1.08 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 325900, 325800 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Chalk Hill QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.