Land Adjacent To Cowley Cutting
Industrial
Land Adjacent To Cowley Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Eccleshall, Staffordshire. It received industrial waste between 1985 and 1992, covering about 0.9 hectares. Reference EAHLD29154, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD29154 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land Adjacent To Cowley Cutting |
| Address | Lower Cowley, Gnosall, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Miller Buckley Civil |
| Licence issued | 12 December 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 August 1992 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.9 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 382900, 319500 |
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
- Rear Of Old Barn CloseWaste types not recorded
- Knightley Road QuarryHousehold
- Barn Bridge FarmWaste 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.