Historic landfill sites in Great Harwood, Lancashire
The Environment Agency records 19 historic landfill sites in and around Great Harwood, Lancashire. covering roughly 21 hectares in total. The largest is Great Harwood Railway Cutting at 2.82 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Great Harwood (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Harwood Railway Cutting | 2.82 ha | 1976 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Clinkham Quarry | 2.4 ha | 1972 | Waste types not recorded |
| Belmont Farm | 2.13 ha | 1987 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Belmont Farm | 2.13 ha | 1990 | Inert |
| Belmont Farm | 2.12 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land at Meadow Street | 1.39 ha | 1986 | IndustrialInert |
| Sir John's Wood | 1.25 ha | 1986 | Inert |
| Whalley Sewage Works | 0.97 ha | 1973 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Great Harwood Urban District Council | 0.87 ha | 1960 | HouseholdInert |
| Car Dismantlers Blick | 0.71 ha | 1980 | Inert |
| Clinkham Quarry B | 0.66 ha | 1981 | Inert |
| Calderstones Hospital A | 0.62 ha | 1974 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| St Hubert Street | 0.59 ha | — | Inert |
| Calderstones Hospital B | 0.54 ha | 1992 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Brockhall Hospital B | 0.52 ha | 1992 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Cliffe Quarry | 0.52 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| Petre Garage | 0.36 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Mill Wood | 0.23 ha | 1968 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Brockhall Hospital A | 0.09 ha | 1978 | HouseholdCommercial |
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 Great Harwood?
- 19 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Great Harwood 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 Great Harwood?
- 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.