Duckworth Hall
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Duckworth Hall is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. It received industrial, household and commercial waste from 1969, covering about 3.58 hectares. Reference EAHLD06963, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06963 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Duckworth Hall |
| Address | Nooh Lane, Oswaldtwistle, Hyndburn, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Oswaldtwistle Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | R Townson |
| Licence issued | 18 January 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 October 1969 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 3.58 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 372400, 426800 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Cocker ChemicalsWaste types not recorded
- BTP Duckworth HallLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial
- Duckworth HallIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Cocker Chemical CoIndustrialInert
- Higher Duckworth Hill FarmSpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
- Stanhill TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
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.