Cophurst Lane Sand Quarry
Inert
Cophurst Lane Sand Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chorley, Lancashire. It received inert waste in 1981, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD07183, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07183 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cophurst Lane Sand Quarry |
| Address | Cophurst Lane, Wheelton, Near Chorley, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Clayton Hall Sand Company |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 30 June 1981 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 359700, 421300 |
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
- Morris Fold FarmInert
- Carwood FarmIndustrial
- Lowe FarmInert
- Higher House LaneInert
- Chorley Old RoadWaste types not recorded
- Thomas WitterIndustrialInert
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.