Old Sand Hole
Liquid / sludge
Old Sand Hole is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Alsager, Cheshire East. It received liquid/sludge waste until 1987, covering about 0.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD35242, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35242 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Sand Hole |
| Address | North side of Cherry Lane, Church Lawton |
| Site operator | Twyfords Limited |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1987 |
| Area | 0.48 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 380700, 356700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Cherry LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Samdbach Road NorthWaste types not recorded
- Alsager FactoryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- The Brunds Sand PitInert
- Chells Hill FarmWaste types not recorded
- Chell Hills Farm - Site off B5078IndustrialCommercial
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.