Borehole No. 107
Liquid / sludgeIndustrial
Borehole No. 107 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Thornton, Lancashire. It received liquid/sludge and industrial waste from 1977, covering about 0.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD07040, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07040 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Borehole No. 107 |
| Address | Borehole No 107, High Gate Lane, Little Height o' th' Hill, Stalmine, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Imperial Chemical Industries Limited |
| Licence issued | 9 September 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.04 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 335500, 445000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Bank FarmHouseholdCommercial
- Stanah House FarmHousehold
- Burn NazeHousehold
- Fleetwood Power StationIndustrialInert
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.