Weeping Cross (Scott-Newman)
Industrial
Weeping Cross (Scott-Newman) is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shrewsbury, Shropshire. It received industrial waste between 1976 and 1978, covering about 0.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD24298, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24298 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Weeping Cross (Scott-Newman) |
| Address | Old Railway Cutting, Weeping Cross, Shrewsbury, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Scott and Newman Limited |
| Licence issued | 30 September 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1976 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Area | 0.48 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 351200, 310200 |
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
- Weeping CrossIndustrial
- Land South West of Weeping Cross/Sutton HallInert
- Fox FarmLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Betton Abbots FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Mill Road, Abbey ForegateWaste types not recorded
- Summer Gardens/Former Belle Vue Service StationInert
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.