Historic landfill sites in Littleborough
The Environment Agency records 23 historic landfill sites in and around Littleborough. covering roughly 19 hectares in total. The largest is Rakewood Road at 4.07 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Littleborough (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rakewood Road | 4.07 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Wellfield Mill Site | 2.03 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Clough Field Works | 1.64 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Rockingstones Moss | 1.14 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Greenvale | 1.12 ha | 1987 | Inert |
| Ashe Laboratories | 1.06 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Field No. 6224 | 1.04 ha | 1986 | Inert |
| Hey Bottom Farm | 1.01 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Lydgate | 0.91 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| New Street/Land At Stubley Mill Road | 0.75 ha | 1990 | Inert |
| PLYSU | 0.64 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Heights Farm | 0.61 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Calderbrook Industrial Works | 0.55 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Denehurst Farm | 0.52 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Shore Mill | 0.44 ha | — | Industrial |
| Higher Shore Farm | 0.34 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Paragon Industrial Works | 0.31 ha | 1984 | IndustrialInert |
| Ealees Mill | 0.31 ha | — | Industrial |
| River Roch Valley at Fothergill and Harvey PLC | 0.21 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Sladen Bridge | 0.2 ha | 1987 | Inert |
| Shepherds Rest Tip | 0.13 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| River Roch Valley at Forthergill and Harvey | 0.03 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Reddyshore Scout Gate | 0.02 ha | 1982 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
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 Littleborough?
- 23 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Littleborough 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 Littleborough?
- 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.