Landfill Check

British Rail Embankment

IndustrialInert

British Rail Embankment is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leek, Staffordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1900 and 1990, covering about 2.59 hectares. Reference EAHLD28863, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD28863
Site nameBritish Rail Embankment
AddressBritish Rail Embankment, Chedleton, Leek, Staffordshire
Site operatorBrittains (Paper) Limited
Licence holderMr F W and Mrs D A Harrison
Licence issued4 October 1977
Licence surrendered7 November 1991
First waste input31 December 1900
Last waste input31 December 1990
Area2.59 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference398100, 352100

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

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.