Landfill Check

Dalton Quarry

IndustrialInert

Dalton Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Skelmersdale, Lancashire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1965 and 1979, covering about 21.68 hectares. Reference EAHLD06843, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD06843
Site nameDalton Quarry
AddressLees Lane, Appley Bridge, Near Wigan, Lancashire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderHoveringham Gravels Northern Limited
Licence issued25 April 1978
Licence surrendered18 May 1994
First waste input31 December 1965
Last waste input31 December 1979
Area21.68 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral NW
Grid reference351100, 409300

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.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.