Historic landfill sites in Whitworth, Lancashire
The Environment Agency records 14 historic landfill sites in and around Whitworth, Lancashire. covering roughly 24 hectares in total. The largest is Landgate Quarry at 12.3 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Whitworth (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Landgate Quarry | 12.3 ha | 1974 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Leavengreave | 3.05 ha | 1973 | Commercial |
| Trains - Barlow Bottoms | 1.74 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Facit Quarry | 1.59 ha | — | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Landgate | 1.25 ha | — | Commercial |
| Festival Park | 0.81 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Sewage Works | 0.7 ha | 1970 | Waste types not recorded |
| Moss Quarry | 0.64 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHousehold |
| Spring Mill | 0.64 ha | — | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Top O'th Meadow | 0.45 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Facit Quarry | 0.34 ha | — | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Land off Eastgate | 0.27 ha | 1980 | Waste types not recorded |
| Mill Lodge | 0.21 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Healey Mill | 0.07 ha | 1985 | 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 Whitworth?
- 14 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Whitworth 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 Whitworth?
- 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.