Bog Height
IndustrialCommercialInert
Bog Height is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Blackburn, Blackburn with Darwen. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1977 and 1989, covering about 7.51 hectares. Reference EAHLD06942, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06942 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bog Height |
| Address | Bog Height Road, Darwen, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | T Lethbridge Limited |
| Licence issued | 8 September 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1989 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Area | 7.51 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 367400, 424700 |
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.
- 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
- Spout House FarmInert
- Bunkers HillWaste types not recorded
- Yew Tree FarmInert
- Anchor RoadWaste types not recorded
- Milking LaneInert
- Lower Darwen Paper MillLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
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.