Dawber Quarry
Inert
Dawber Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Adlington, Lancashire. It received inert waste between 1978 and 1993, covering about 0.59 hectares. Reference EAHLD06936, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06936 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Dawber Quarry |
| Address | Horrobin Lane, Anderton, Near Horwich, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | North West Water Limited |
| Licence issued | 16 January 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 12 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 16 January 1978 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1993 |
| Area | 0.59 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 361900, 414400 |
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
- Fairview FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.