Carwood Farm
Industrial
Carwood Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chorley, Lancashire. It received industrial waste between 1953 and 1961, covering about 0.67 hectares. Reference EAHLD07436, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07436 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Carwood Farm |
| Address | Off Carwood Lane, Whittle le Woods, Chorley, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Chorley Borough Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1953 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1961 |
| Area | 0.67 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 358300, 421600 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Lowe FarmInert
- Chorley Old RoadWaste types not recorded
- Cophurst Lane Sand QuarryInert
- Royal Ordnance Factory Tip No.7Waste types not recorded
- Royal Ordnance Factory Tip No.6Waste types not recorded
- Clayton Hall Sand QuarrySpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
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.