Bury And Rochdale Old Road
IndustrialInert
Bury And Rochdale Old Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Heywood. It received industrial and inert waste between 1971 and 1980, covering about 0.37 hectares. Reference EAHLD15744, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15744 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bury And Rochdale Old Road |
| Address | Birtle |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Tack Lea Works Limited |
| Licence issued | 2 July 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 6 November 1985 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1971 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Area | 0.37 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 383900, 412000 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Lower Elbut FarmWaste types not recorded
- Elbut WoodWaste types not recorded
- Rochdale Old RoadInert
- Transparent Paper LimitedSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Rochdale Old RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Roach MillIndustrialHousehold
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.