Agecroft Power Station
IndustrialInert
Agecroft Power Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swinton. It received industrial and inert waste from 1950, covering about 4.29 hectares. Reference EAHLD32048, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD32048 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Agecroft Power Station |
| Address | Swinton, Manchester, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Central Electricity Generating Board |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1950 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 4.29 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 379700, 401800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Agecroft Power StationIndustrialInert
- SandywoodWaste types not recorded
- Land North of Agecroft RoadWaste types not recorded
- Lumn's LaneWaste types not recorded
- Agecroft CollieryInert
- Rabbit HillsWaste 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.