Clifton Junction
IndustrialCommercialInert
Clifton Junction is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swinton. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1916 and 2002, covering about 1.98 hectares. Reference EAHLD17970, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17970 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Clifton Junction |
| Address | Wynne Avenue, Clifton, Swinton, Salford, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Pilkingtons Tiles Limited |
| Licence holder | Pilkington Tiles Limited |
| Licence issued | 22 January 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 19 September 2002 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1916 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.98 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 378100, 403600 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Manchester RoadInert
- Hog's BridgeWaste types not recorded
- Land at Carrington StreetSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land South Of Ringley RoadInert
- Lumn's LaneWaste types not recorded
- Lumns LaneSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.