Leycett Railway, Finney Green
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Leycett Railway, Finney Green is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Madeley, Staffordshire. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1969 and 1985, covering about 2.13 hectares. Reference EAHLD23469, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23469 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Leycett Railway, Finney Green |
| Address | Agger Hill, Madeley Heath, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Staffordshire County Council ( pre 1974 Newcastle-under-Lyme Rural District Council) |
| Licence holder | Staffordshire County Council |
| Licence issued | 22 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1985 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1969 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.13 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 379200, 346000 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Historic landfill EAHLD35888Waste types not recorded
- Leycett Railway,IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Leycett Landfill SiteHouseholdCommercialInert
- Madeley Heath (Rear Heath Row)HouseholdInert
- Lane FarmHousehold
- Crackley GatesIndustrialCommercial
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.