Historic landfill sites in Skelmersdale, Lancashire
The Environment Agency records 21 historic landfill sites in and around Skelmersdale, Lancashire. covering roughly 129 hectares in total. The largest is Dalton Quarry at 21.68 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Skelmersdale (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dalton Quarry | 21.68 ha | 1979 | IndustrialInert |
| Round ' O ' Quarry | 20.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Parbold & West Quarry ( Wimpey Disposal Ltd, Appley L F S ) | 17.34 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Station Road | 14.43 ha | 1980 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Rough Park Quarry | 9.99 ha | — | SpecialIndustrialInert |
| Holland Colliery | 8.05 ha | 1986 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Dingle Quarry | 6.66 ha | 1979 | HouseholdInert |
| Lees Lane | 5.25 ha | — | Commercial |
| Quarry at Hilldale | 4.23 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Sanderson Farm | 4.01 ha | 1994 | Inert |
| British Hydroflex | 3.89 ha | 1983 | IndustrialInert |
| South of Bluestones Lane | 3.84 ha | — | Inert |
| Railway Cutting | 3.27 ha | 1980 | Inert |
| Alder Lane Playing Field | 2.29 ha | 1990 | SpecialCommercialInert |
| Ravenhead Works | 2.11 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Knights Cottage | 0.81 ha | 1960 | Household |
| Tower Hill Quarry | 0.3 ha | 1950 | IndustrialInert |
| Nook Farm | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Lower Meadow Farm | 0.2 ha | 1988 | Inert |
| Dingle Quarry | 0.09 ha | 1994 | Inert |
| Off Lafford Lane | 0.03 ha | — | 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 Skelmersdale?
- 21 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Skelmersdale 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 Skelmersdale?
- 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.