Adjacent To Trent and Mersey Canal
Industrial
Adjacent To Trent and Mersey Canal is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. It received industrial waste between 1992 and 1993, covering about 5.27 hectares. Reference EAHLD23994, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23994 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Adjacent To Trent and Mersey Canal |
| Address | Fowlea Brook, Middleport/Rugeley Between Turnover Bridge And Railway |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Waterways |
| Licence issued | 8 December 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | 6 August 1993 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 5.27 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 386200, 348900 |
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
- Midwinter TipIndustrial
- Burslem Water Reclamation WorksLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Off Porthill RoadIndustrialInert
- Rogerson's MeadowIndustrialInert
- Rogersons MeadowIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Allotment GardensHousehold
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.