Disused Railway Cutting
Household
Disused Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. It received household waste on dates not recorded, covering about 10.11 hectares. Reference EAHLD27801, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD27801 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Railway Cutting |
| Address | Between Leckhampton Station and Sandy Lane, Leckhampton Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cheltenham Borough Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 10.11 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Lower Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 396600, 219800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Colgate FarmSpecialInert
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.