Burnedge Mill
Inert
Burnedge Mill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Milnrow. It received inert waste between 1984 and 1986, covering about 0.05 hectares. Reference EAHLD15803, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15803 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Burnedge Mill |
| Address | Rochdale |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Richardson and Carroll |
| Licence issued | 5 April 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 May 1984 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Area | 0.05 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 391700, 410400 |
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
- Land to the rear of Starkey FarmHousehold
- Land at Starkey FarmWaste types not recorded
- Greenhill FarmWaste types not recorded
- Dig Gate FarmInert
- Land at Narrow Gate FarmWaste types not recorded
- Land at Hanging Chadder FarmWaste 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.