Disused railway track
IndustrialInert
Disused railway track is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Lees. It received industrial and inert waste between 1983 and 1986, covering about 2.91 hectares. Reference EAHLD15593, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15593 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused railway track |
| Address | Moorhey Street-Glodwick Road, Moorhey, Oldham, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | P Casey (Plant Hire) Limited |
| Licence issued | 8 August 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Last waste input | 6 February 1986 |
| Area | 2.91 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 394100, 404800 |
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
- Land at Beaufort DriveWaste types not recorded
- Land at Bank TopWaste types not recorded
- Land at Athens Mill WestWaste types not recorded
- Land off Brook LaneWaste types not recorded
- Land at Athens Mill NorthWaste types not recorded
- Land at Glodwick RoadWaste 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.