Burn Naze
Household
Burn Naze is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Thornton, Lancashire. It received household waste in 1950, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD07218, 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 | EAHLD07218 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Burn Naze |
| Address | Bourne Road, Burn Naze, Thornton, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wyre Borough Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 December 1950 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1950 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 333900, 443900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Tip No.1 Hillhouse WorksLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Lagoon No.1 Hillhouse WorksLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Lagoon No.2 Hillhouse WorksIndustrialInert
- Tip No.4 Hillhouse WorksWaste types not recorded
- Burn HallHousehold
- Cleveleys No.1Waste 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.