Coal Pit Farm
Inert
Coal Pit Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Blackburn, Blackburn with Darwen. It received inert waste between 1972 and 1978, covering about 6.24 hectares. Reference EAHLD07326, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07326 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Coal Pit Farm |
| Address | Manxman Road, Higher Croft, Blackburn, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Blackburn Borough Building Department |
| Licence holder | Blackburn Borough Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 May 1972 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Area | 6.24 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 368500, 426300 |
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
- Park Lee RoadInert
- Lewis Sharrock DelphSpecialInert
- Gillibrand RubberIndustrial
- Bennington Street/Pringle StreetWaste types not recorded
- Audley QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Milking LaneInert
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.