Historic landfill sites in Heywood
The Environment Agency records 31 historic landfill sites in and around Heywood. covering roughly 78 hectares in total. The largest is Land South of Chadwick Lane at 13.75 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Heywood (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Land South of Chadwick Lane | 13.75 ha | 1986 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Boo-Hole Sand Quarry Extension | 9.87 ha | 1990 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Brook Bank | 6.1 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Peel Lane | 5.74 ha | 1975 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Prettywood Sand Quarry | 5.53 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Prettywood West Extension Landfill Site | 5.53 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Bowlee Sand QuarryBluebell Lane | 4.75 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Bury New Road | 3.59 ha | 1985 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| Queens Park Road | 3.21 ha | 1976 | Inert |
| Roach Mill | 3.14 ha | — | IndustrialHousehold |
| Rochdale Old Road | 2.57 ha | 1975 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Former Sludge Pits | 2.13 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Transparent Paper Limited | 1.77 ha | 1986 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| Mutual Street | 1.55 ha | 1986 | Inert |
| Buly and Rochdale Old Road | 1.26 ha | — | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Hooley Bridge Works | 1.1 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Lower Elbut Farm | 0.88 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Clay Lane Water treatment Works | 0.86 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Roe Acre Mill | 0.83 ha | 1992 | CommercialInert |
| Rochdale Old Road | 0.63 ha | 1985 | Inert |
| Rainshore Works | 0.62 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Ashworth Reservoir | 0.42 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Bury And Rochdale Old Road | 0.37 ha | 1980 | IndustrialInert |
| Dexine Works | 0.31 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Elbut Wood | 0.3 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Former Gasholder Site | 0.25 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Woodhouse Mill | 0.23 ha | 1991 | IndustrialInert |
| Park View Landfill Site | 0.22 ha | 1993 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Meadowcroft Mill | 0.17 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Simpson Clough Mills | 0.16 ha | — | SpecialIndustrialInert |
| Hooley Bridge | 0.14 ha | — | Waste 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.
Common questions
- How many former landfill sites are there in Heywood?
- 31 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Heywood 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 Heywood?
- 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.