Welbatch Farm
IndustrialInert
Welbatch Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shrewsbury, Shropshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1967 and 1983, covering about 0.99 hectares. Reference EAHLD24311, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24311 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Welbatch Farm |
| Address | Welbatch Farm, Annscroft, Shrewsbury, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | R Kent Esquire |
| Licence issued | 30 April 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 February 1990 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1967 |
| Last waste input | 31 July 1983 |
| Area | 0.99 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 346100, 308600 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Red Hill, Hook-A-GateWaste types not recorded
- Dayhouse FarmInert
- Moat Hall, AnnscroftInert
- East Of Longden RoadInert
- Pulley FarmInert
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.