Shelton Works
Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Shelton Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. It received liquid/sludge, industrial and inert waste between 1947 and 1991, covering about 0.21 hectares. Reference EAHLD24096, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24096 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Shelton Works |
| Address | Etruria, Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Steel Corporation |
| Licence issued | 14 April 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 January 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1947 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 0.21 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 386400, 347700 |
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.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Shelton SteelworksIndustrial
- Shelton Works/Ex Shelton Steelworks Site, Cobridge GrangeLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Shelton WorksIndustrialCommercialInert
- Shelton Steelworks SiteLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Shelton Steelworks SiteWaste types not recorded
- Shelton Steelworks SiteHousehold
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.