Crookhilly Wood Farm
Industrial
Crookhilly Wood Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Denton. It received industrial waste between 1957 and 1972, covering about 0.26 hectares. Reference EAHLD31997, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD31997 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Crookhilly Wood Farm |
| Address | Wood Farm, Ashton Road, Bredbury, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Crookhilly Wood Farm |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1957 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1972 |
| Area | 0.26 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 391700, 392000 |
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
- Ashton Road LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Whitefield Road LandfillHousehold
- Bredbury and Romiley Urban District CouncilSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- J and A. Jackson LimitedLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- Bredbury LandfillLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Brinnington RiseInert
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.