Belthorne Mineshaft
SpecialInert
Belthorne Mineshaft is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. It received special (hazardous) and inert waste between 1951 and 1952, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD07341, 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 | EAHLD07341 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Belthorne Mineshaft |
| Address | Elton Road, Hyndurn, Belthorne, Oswaldtwistle, HyndburnLancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 November 1951 |
| Last waste input | 31 August 1952 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 372400, 424600 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- New Waterside Paper MillInert
- Spring FarmInert
- Shaws Of DarwenIndustrialInert
- Higher Duckworth Hill FarmSpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
- Duckworth HallIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Shaw Fold 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.