Disused Railway Cutting
IndustrialInert
Disused Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Madeley, Staffordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1980 and 1990, covering about 1.14 hectares. Reference EAHLD23382, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23382 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Railway Cutting |
| Address | Red Hall Farm, Betley, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Galliford Roadstone |
| Licence issued | 3 June 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 3 February 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Last waste input | 11 October 1990 |
| Area | 1.14 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 378800, 348100 |
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
- Hayes WoodWaste types not recorded
- Disused Works / Dorking worksIndustrialCommercialInert
- Near Bulthorns WoodWaste types not recorded
- South West Of Bullthorns WoodWaste types not recorded
- Lane FarmHousehold
- Near Disused ShaftsHouseholdInert
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.