Cauldon Low Quarry
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Cauldon Low Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cheadle, Staffordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1950 and 1959, covering about 1.6 hectares. Reference EAHLD28896, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28896 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cauldon Low Quarry |
| Address | Derbyshire Stone Limited, Hemmings Low, Cauldon Low, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1950 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1959 |
| Area | 1.6 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 407300, 348700 |
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
- North of Rue HillWaste types not recorded
- Cauldon Cement WorksWaste types not recorded
- Marl HoleWaste types not recorded
- Windy HarbourCommercial
- Ribden Clay PitIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Near Windy HarbourWaste 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.