Old Railway Cutting
Industrial
Old Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cinderford, Gloucestershire. It received industrial waste from 1985, covering about 2.08 hectares. Reference EAHLD27767, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD27767 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Railway Cutting |
| Address | Engelhard Limited, Valley Road, Cinderford, Gloucestershire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Englehard Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 October 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.08 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 364900, 214300 |
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
- Bilson GreenCommercialInert
- Cinderford Depot, Land West of Valley RoadIndustrialInert
- Cannop FoundryIndustrialCommercial
- Bilson TipWaste types not recorded
- Land West of New TownWaste types not recorded
- Crump MeadowCommercialInert
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.