Historic landfill sites in Bury
The Environment Agency records 34 historic landfill sites in and around Bury. covering roughly 64 hectares in total. The largest is Roach Bank at 19.64 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Bury (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roach Bank | 19.64 ha | — | Inert |
| Land At Bury Road | 7.3 ha | — | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Woodfields | 6.08 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Gin Hall | 4.37 ha | 1992 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| King George V Playing Fields | 3.97 ha | 1974 | Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Walmersley Brick Works | 3.82 ha | 1985 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Whitewell Farm | 2.16 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Bury Road | 1.73 ha | 1977 | Industrial |
| Pigsden Farm | 1.44 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Wellington Road | 1.17 ha | 1971 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Land At Hinds Lane | 1.01 ha | 1992 | SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert |
| Pilsworth Sand Pit Phase A | 0.88 ha | 1989 | SpecialIndustrialInert |
| Land Off Woodhill Road | 0.85 ha | 1990 | Inert |
| Pilsworth Sand Pit | 0.82 ha | 1989 | Industrial |
| Land South of Cricket Ground | 0.71 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Bolholt Works | 0.71 ha | 1984 | IndustrialInert |
| Elton Works | 0.69 ha | 1985 | Inert |
| Woolfold paper Mills | 0.62 ha | 1986 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| Wellington Street | 0.58 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Goshen Playing Fields | 0.56 ha | 1987 | IndustrialInert |
| Land off Gigg Lane | 0.54 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| Woolfold Paper Mills | 0.49 ha | 1986 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| Railway Cuttings East and West Of Manchester Road | 0.49 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Nineveh Farm | 0.49 ha | — | Inert |
| Ainsworth Road | 0.48 ha | 1990 | Inert |
| Land off Newbold Street | 0.41 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Peel College | 0.33 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Mill Lodges | 0.33 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Railway Cutting | 0.3 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Railway Cuttings East and West Of Manchester Road | 0.26 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Mill Road | 0.24 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land Off Woodhill Road | 0.17 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Tottington | 0.16 ha | 1986 | Inert |
| Goshen Playing Fields | 0.01 ha | 1987 | Inert |
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.
Common questions
- How many former landfill sites are there in Bury?
- 34 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Bury town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
- How do I check a specific address in Bury?
- Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.
Nearby areas
Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.