Historic landfill sites in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire
The Environment Agency records 55 historic landfill sites in and around Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. covering roughly 325 hectares in total. The largest is Birchenwood Landfill Site at 78.52 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Kidsgrove (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birchenwood Landfill Site | 78.52 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Colclough Lane | 52.82 ha | 1974 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| High Carr | 21.21 ha | — | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Land At Audley Road | 10.52 ha | — | HouseholdInert |
| East Of Colclough Lane | 10.26 ha | 1974 | IndustrialHousehold |
| Between Hollywell Lane And Summerbank Road | 9.58 ha | — | HouseholdInert |
| Land Near Birchen Wood, Stonebank Road Tip Extension To 43 | 9.46 ha | 1972 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Heathside Lane | 6.7 ha | 1991 | IndustrialInert |
| Sports Field | 6.51 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Off Chatterley Road | 6.3 ha | — | Household |
| Crackley Bank | 5.97 ha | — | HouseholdInert |
| Russell Place | 5.85 ha | — | HouseholdInert |
| Ravensdale Tip | 5.79 ha | — | Industrial |
| Crackley Bank | 5.23 ha | 1963 | Industrial |
| Colclough Quarry | 4.73 ha | 1990 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Goldenhill Quarry | 4.73 ha | 1981 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Tunstall Water Reclamation Works | 4.5 ha | 1992 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| Derelict Mine Workings | 4.21 ha | — | Household |
| Off Boathouse Road | 3.98 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Talke Road Landfill | 3.82 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| High Carr Tip | 3.8 ha | — | IndustrialHousehold |
| Land At Bankeyfields | 3.79 ha | 1990 | IndustrialInert |
| High Carr Farm | 3.64 ha | — | Inert |
| Lowlands Colliery Limited | 3.6 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Road Opposite High Carr Farm | 3.57 ha | — | Inert |
| Apedale Valley | 3.39 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| Mow Cop Brickworks | 3.28 ha | 2003 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Woodhouse, Farm Wood | 3.19 ha | — | Household |
| Clanway Sports Stadium | 3.07 ha | — | Household |
| Land South Of High Carr Farm | 2.98 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Line Houses | 2.73 ha | 1981 | Waste types not recorded |
| Former Bentley Tileries | 2.4 ha | 1994 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Rear Of Wood Lane Cricket Club | 2.36 ha | — | Household |
| Grahams Tip/Grahams Coaches | 2.22 ha | 1991 | IndustrialHousehold |
| Newchapel Tip | 2.2 ha | — | Household |
| Cherry Hill | 1.85 ha | 1997 | Waste types not recorded |
| Off Colclough Lane | 1.8 ha | — | IndustrialHousehold |
| Talke Road / West of Bradwell Wood | 1.73 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| East Of Heathside Lane | 1.67 ha | — | Household |
| St Johns Roman Catholic School | 1.54 ha | 1994 | CommercialInert |
| Disused Sewage Works Quarry | 1.24 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| West Of Heathside Lane | 1.03 ha | — | Household |
| Rear Of Petrol Station Eastside | 0.92 ha | — | Industrial |
| Crackley Bank | 0.9 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Behind Catholic School | 0.72 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Partridge Nest Farm | 0.72 ha | 1992 | Industrial |
| Rear of Oasis Public House Westside | 0.67 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land Near Bullocks House Road | 0.62 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Springwood Road Landfill Site | 0.55 ha | 1990 | IndustrialInert |
| Tidysite Skips - Springwood Road Landfill Site | 0.53 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Chatterley Quarry | 0.47 ha | 1988 | SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert |
| West of Bradwell Wood | 0.34 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Springwood Farm | 0.31 ha | 1986 | Industrial |
| Plot H | 0.28 ha | — | Industrial |
| Gresley - Brownhills Tileries Landfill Site | 0.19 ha | — | Industrial |
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 Kidsgrove?
- 55 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Kidsgrove 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 Kidsgrove?
- 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.