Disused Bury-Bolton Railway line
IndustrialInert
Disused Bury-Bolton Railway line is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Radcliffe. It received industrial and inert waste between 1979 and 1989, covering about 3.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD15837, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15837 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Bury-Bolton Railway line |
| Address | East Of, Ainsworth Road, Radcliffe, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | D J Barlow |
| Licence issued | 16 January 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 11 March 1996 |
| First waste input | 28 February 1979 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Area | 3.48 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 378100, 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
- Rear of Constellation MillIndustrialInert
- Railway CuttingInert
- Land adjacent to Ainsworth Road - Coventry RoadWaste types not recorded
- Cemetery RoadWaste types not recorded
- Land at Cemetery RoadWaste types not recorded
- Cemetery RoadHouseholdCommercial
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.