Wallgrange Farm
IndustrialInert
Wallgrange Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leek, Staffordshire. It received industrial and inert waste in 1991, covering about 3.38 hectares. Reference EAHLD28864, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28864 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wallgrange Farm |
| Address | Land Adjacent To Soils Wood, Leekbrook, Part Of Wallgrange Farm |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Birse Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 24 July 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 May 1992 |
| First waste input | 24 July 1991 |
| Last waste input | 14 October 1991 |
| Area | 3.38 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 397600, 354300 |
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
- Leek Water Reclamation WorksInert
- Leek Sewage WorksIndustrialInert
- Cheadle Road Landfill SiteIndustrial
- Joshua Wardle LimitedIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Croda Leek LimitedIndustrialCommercialInert
- Wall Grange QuarryWaste 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.