Landfill Check

Dunnockshaw Farm

Waste types not recorded

Dunnockshaw Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rawtenstall, Lancashire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1990 and 1991, covering about 0.71 hectares. Reference EAHLD15499, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD15499
Site nameDunnockshaw Farm
AddressDunnockshaw, Lancashire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNorth West Water Limited
Licence issued7 September 1990
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input8 September 1990
Last waste input1 November 1991
Area0.71 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSouth NW
Grid reference381500, 427600

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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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.