Old Railway Line
Industrial
Old Railway Line is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Alsager, Cheshire East. It received industrial waste between 1977 and 1983, covering about 0.8 hectares. Reference EAHLD23401, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23401 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Railway Line |
| Address | Audley Road, Dunkirk, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Robert William Edwards |
| Licence issued | 24 May 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 4 June 1985 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Area | 0.8 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 381400, 352700 |
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
- Derelict Mine WorkingsHousehold
- DiglakeHousehold
- Dirt Track RoadIndustrialHousehold
- Rear of Oasis Public House WestsideWaste types not recorded
- Rear Of Petrol Station EastsideIndustrial
- Talke Road LandfillWaste 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.