Dawson Lane
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Dawson Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leyland, Lancashire. It received industrial and household waste until 1975, covering about 3.78 hectares. Reference EAHLD07182, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07182 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Dawson Lane |
| Address | Dawson Lane, Leyland, Preston, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1975 |
| Area | 3.78 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 356300, 421500 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- ROF Chorley - Tip No.1Waste types not recorded
- ROF ChorleyInert
- Clayton Hall Sand QuarrySpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- Royal Ordnance Factory Tip No.7Waste types not recorded
- Royal Ordnance Factory Tip No.2Waste types not recorded
- Royal Ordnance Factory Tip No.4Waste types not recorded
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.