Joshua Wardle Limited
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Joshua Wardle Limited is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leek, Staffordshire. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1927 and 1990, covering about 0.33 hectares. Reference EAHLD28815, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28815 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Joshua Wardle Limited |
| Address | Site To West and South West of the Old Boiler House, Leekbrook, Leek |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Joshua Wardle Limited |
| Licence issued | 18 April 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 August 1992 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1927 |
| Last waste input | 21 March 1990 |
| Area | 0.33 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 398100, 353700 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Cheadle Road Landfill SiteIndustrial
- Leek Sewage WorksIndustrialInert
- Wallgrange FarmIndustrialInert
- Leek Water Reclamation WorksInert
- Station RoadIndustrialInert
- British Rail EmbankmentIndustrialInert
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.