Bispham Hall Brick
Inert
Bispham Hall Brick is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Billinge. It received inert waste between 1939 and 1987, covering about 1.87 hectares. Reference EAHLD07073, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07073 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bispham Hall Brick |
| Address | Off Smethurst Road, Orrell, Wigan, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Bispham Hall Brick and Terracotta Company Limited |
| Licence holder | Bispham Hall Brick and Terracotta Company |
| Licence issued | 8 May 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 July 2005 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1939 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Area | 1.87 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 352200, 403200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- New Fold FarmInert
- Pimbo BushesInert
- Pimbo Landfill SiteSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Edge Hall RoadWaste types not recorded
- Ravenhead WorksIndustrialInert
- Tower Hill QuarryIndustrialInert
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.