Crackley Bank
Industrial
Crackley Bank is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. It received industrial waste between 1960 and 1963, covering about 5.23 hectares. Reference EAHLD23407, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23407 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Crackley Bank |
| Address | Beata Road, Crackley, Chesterton, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 January 1960 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1963 |
| Area | 5.23 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 383500, 350300 |
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
- Crackley BankWaste types not recorded
- Land South Of High Carr FarmWaste types not recorded
- Junction Crackley Bank, 3 x HolesHousehold
- Plot HIndustrial
- Talke Road / West of Bradwell WoodWaste types not recorded
- Talke RoadIndustrialInert
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.