Barton Power Station
IndustrialInert
Barton Power Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Eccles. It received industrial and inert waste between 1982 and 1983, covering about 0.14 hectares. Reference EAHLD16538, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16538 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Barton Power Station |
| Address | Twining Road, Barton |
| Site operator | Power Station |
| Licence holder | Arlground Limited |
| Licence issued | 4 February 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 3 June 1983 |
| First waste input | 1 March 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 May 1983 |
| Area | 0.14 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 377000, 397600 |
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
- Land South of Taylor RoadWaste types not recorded
- Former Sewage WorksWaste types not recorded
- Central AvenueWaste types not recorded
- Land Beside Old Barton RoadSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Northern Side Of Barton Dock RoadInert
- Land to the East of The M60Waste 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.