Historic landfill sites in Urmston
The Environment Agency records 23 historic landfill sites in and around Urmston. covering roughly 156 hectares in total. The largest is Meadows Road at 39.19 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Urmston (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadows Road | 39.19 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Conway Road | 20.22 ha | 1970 | Inert |
| Eccles Effluent Treatment Works | 15.75 ha | 1993 | Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Hawthorn Road | 13.5 ha | 1979 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Bent Lanes Brook | 10.22 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Barton Clough County Primary School | 10.14 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Eccles Corporation | 6.61 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Urmston Grammar School | 5.76 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Land Beside Old Barton Road | 4.51 ha | 1988 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Nursery Road | 4.14 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Former Sewage Works | 3.48 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| New Hall Farm | 3.13 ha | — | SpecialIndustrialInert |
| Land to the East of The M60 | 2.62 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Carrington Lane | 2.59 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Crofts Bank Brook | 2.4 ha | 1985 | Inert |
| Carrington Lane | 2.33 ha | 1993 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Marlow Close | 2.22 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Barrowfield Farm | 2.04 ha | — | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Carrington Lane | 1.54 ha | 1972 | IndustrialInert |
| South of Askers Farm | 1.25 ha | — | IndustrialCommercial |
| H. Wood Limited | 1.1 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrial |
| Land at Longmeadow | 0.89 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Carrington Lane | 0.66 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 Urmston?
- 23 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Urmston 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 Urmston?
- 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.