Historic landfill sites in Biddulph, Staffordshire
The Environment Agency records 28 historic landfill sites in and around Biddulph, Staffordshire. covering roughly 47 hectares in total. The largest is H J Banks - Knypersley Quarry at 11.32 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Biddulph (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| H J Banks - Knypersley Quarry | 11.32 ha | — | Inert |
| Land between Brindley Ford and Bemersley Road | 9.41 ha | — | Household |
| Black Bull Landfill Site | 7.52 ha | — | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Land Off Roe Park Lane | 3.63 ha | 1992 | SpecialIndustrialInert |
| Bemersley Road | 1.92 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Childer Play Landfill Site | 1.61 ha | — | Household |
| Mow Cop Riding Centre | 1.41 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Close Cottage | 1.12 ha | 1991 | CommercialInert |
| Brook Lane Farm | 1.08 ha | 1979 | IndustrialInert |
| Triangle of land between Congleton Road (A527), Woodhouse Lane and Smithy Lane | 1.06 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| South of Mow Lane Quarry | 0.96 ha | — | Household |
| Meadow Stile Farm | 0.8 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Wood Common Farm | 0.69 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Woodhouse Farm | 0.54 ha | 1958 | Waste types not recorded |
| Mining and Pottery Works | 0.53 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| North of Boundary Cottage | 0.47 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Moody Street Farm | 0.46 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Congleton Edge Road | 0.4 ha | 1985 | Waste types not recorded |
| Mount Pleasant | 0.36 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Forge Colour Works | 0.3 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrial |
| Congleton Edge Road | 0.29 ha | 1983 | Inert |
| Bank End Farm, Rear Of Houses On High Lane | 0.27 ha | 1969 | Inert |
| Land West of Congleton Road, (A527), South of House Number 217 | 0.24 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| The Coppice | 0.21 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Starewood Farm | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Chatterley Whitfield Colliery | 0.18 ha | — | Industrial |
| Near Dismantled Railway | 0.1 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Bridestones Farm | 0.05 ha | 1981 | Waste types not recorded |
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.
Common questions
- How many former landfill sites are there in Biddulph?
- 28 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Biddulph town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
- How do I check a specific address in Biddulph?
- Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.
Nearby areas
Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.