East Of E1 Road
Liquid / sludgeIndustrial
East Of E1 Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Irlam. It received liquid/sludge and industrial waste from 1980, covering about 0.41 hectares. Reference EAHLD16732, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16732 |
|---|---|
| Site name | East Of E1 Road |
| Address | Carrington, Urmston, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Shell Chemicals UK Limited |
| Licence holder | Shell Chemicals UK Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 February 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.41 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 374100, 392400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- East Of E1 RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Flixton RoadLiquid / sludge
- Carrington LaneIndustrialInert
- Carrington LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert
- BrickworksInert
- South of Askers FarmIndustrialCommercial
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.