Abbey Village
Household
Abbey Village is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Blackburn, Blackburn with Darwen. It received household waste on dates not recorded, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD07304, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07304 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Abbey Village |
| Address | Bolton Road, Stanworth, Chorley, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Chorley Borough Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 363700, 423800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Withnell QuarriesIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Higher Stanworth FarmInert
- Higher Stanworth FarmWaste types not recorded
- Stanworth FarmInert
- Close House WoodIndustrialCommercialInert
- Star Paper MillWaste 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.