Chisnall Hall Mine Shafts / Colliery
Liquid / sludgeIndustrial
Chisnall Hall Mine Shafts / Colliery is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Standish. It received liquid/sludge and industrial waste between 1979 and 1985, covering about 0.02 hectares. Reference EAHLD07481, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07481 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Chisnall Hall Mine Shafts / Colliery |
| Address | Off Springs' Brow, Coppull, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Thomas Witter and Co Limited |
| Licence issued | 26 October 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 October 1979 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Area | 0.02 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 354900, 412300 |
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
- White Hill FarmInert
- Welch Whittle Mine ShaftsSpecialIndustrialCommercial
- D and H. Sand Supplies LimitedIndustrialCommercial
- Standish QuarrySpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Waste Incineration LimitedInert
- Standish QuarryInert
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.