Landfill Check

Historic landfill sites in Shaw

The Environment Agency records 71 historic landfill sites in and around Shaw. covering roughly 53 hectares in total. The largest is Beal Valley Landfill at 8.05 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Shaw (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Beal Valley Landfill8.05 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Oldham Plant / Woodstock Factory Oldham5.96 ha1984IndustrialInert
Twingates Tip4.38 ha—IndustrialCommercialInert
Valley Rise4.36 ha—Waste types not recorded
Lower Fullwood Farm2.16 ha1982HouseholdInert
George Street2.15 ha1985Inert
Land off Cowlishaw Lane1.61 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land at Vine Close1.34 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land adjacent to Oldham Road1.22 ha—Waste types not recorded
Piethorne Wastewater Treatment Works Landfill1.22 ha—Waste types not recorded
Broadbent Road1.1 ha1986Inert
Disused Railway Track1.09 ha—Industrial
Hodge Clough Road0.93 ha—Waste types not recorded
Moss Hey Street0.68 ha—Waste types not recorded
Whitefield Dairy Farm0.66 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Green Ash Fields0.65 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hodge Clough0.62 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land at James Street / Wye Mills (South), Salts Street0.6 ha—Waste types not recorded
Shawside Mill0.59 ha—Waste types not recorded
Wye Mills (North)0.59 ha—Waste types not recorded
Greenhill Farm0.56 ha—Waste types not recorded
Whitefield Dairy Farm0.55 ha1989SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Dee Mill0.52 ha—Waste types not recorded
Rutland Mill0.46 ha—Waste types not recorded
Sandy Lane Mill0.46 ha—Waste types not recorded
Clough Mill0.44 ha—Waste types not recorded
Osram Sports Ground0.44 ha—Waste types not recorded
Newby Mills0.42 ha1982CommercialInert
Trade Winds Farm0.41 ha1988Inert
Oak Mills0.39 ha—Waste types not recorded
Briar Mill0.38 ha—Waste types not recorded
Springfield Mills0.37 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land at Whitefield Dairy Farm0.36 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Dawn Mill0.35 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hawk Mill0.34 ha—Waste types not recorded
Whitefield Dairy Farm0.34 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Lily Mills0.31 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land at James Road / Salts Street Mill, Glebe Street0.3 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land at Mossdown Road0.3 ha—Waste types not recorded
Lyon Mill0.3 ha—Waste types not recorded
Briar Mill / Lilac Mill0.29 ha—Waste types not recorded
Linney Lane0.25 ha1989Inert
Woodend Mill0.23 ha—Waste types not recorded
Park Mills0.23 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land at Slack Farm0.22 ha—Waste types not recorded
Moorfield Mill0.22 ha—Waste types not recorded
Rough Hey Farm0.22 ha1987Inert
Woodstock Mill0.21 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land at Sutcliffe Street0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Vale Mills0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Whitefield Dairy Farm0.2 ha1989SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Land off Thornham Road0.19 ha—Waste types not recorded
Disused Effluent Plant0.18 ha1989Inert
Land off Thornham Road0.16 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land at Moorside Mills0.15 ha—Waste types not recorded
Duke Mills0.15 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land to the rear of Assheton Road0.15 ha—Waste types not recorded
Clough Mills0.14 ha—Waste types not recorded
Moss Hey Mill0.12 ha—Waste types not recorded
Wye Mills North0.11 ha—Waste types not recorded
Pearly Bank Farm0.1 ha—Waste types not recorded
Woodhouse Farm0.09 ha1987Inert
Moorfield Mill0.09 ha—Waste types not recorded
Arley Drive0.08 ha—Waste types not recorded
Whitefield Dairy Farm0.08 ha1989SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Land to the rear of Assheton Road0.07 ha—Waste types not recorded
Pond at Bullcote Farm / Brownlow Farm0.07 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land to the rear of Assheton Road0.05 ha—Waste types not recorded
Moss Hey Mill0.04 ha—Waste types not recorded
Ogden Mill0.03 ha—Waste types not recorded
Harewood Road0.03 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 Shaw?
71 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Shaw 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 Shaw?
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.