Barton Fold Farm
SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Barton Fold Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Horwich. It received special (hazardous), industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1980 and 1990, covering about 3.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD15870, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15870 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Barton Fold Farm |
| Address | Off Lostock Lane, Lostock, Bolton, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | J Doyle Limited |
| Licence holder | Waste Management Limited |
| Licence issued | 3 February 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 August 2004 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 3.54 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 364700, 408800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Stone Pit FieldCommercialInert
- RedmossSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Asbestos TipWaste types not recorded
- Chorley RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- BRECWaste types not recorded
- Land at Ashcrofts FarmInert
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.