Talke Road
IndustrialInert
Talke Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1977 and 1978, covering about 18.83 hectares. Reference EAHLD23467, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23467 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Talke Road |
| Address | Chesterton, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | The Metallic Tile Company |
| Licence issued | 6 April 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 2 October 1978 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 1 October 1978 |
| Area | 18.83 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 384100, 349800 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Metallic TileriesSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Plot HIndustrial
- Rosevale Brick And Tile WorksInert
- Brick Kiln Lane - Talke RoadWaste types not recorded
- Crackley BankIndustrial
- Crackley BankWaste 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.