Elton Works
Inert
Elton Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bury. It received inert waste between 1984 and 1985, covering about 0.69 hectares. Reference EAHLD15795, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15795 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Elton Works |
| Address | Victoria Street, Bury |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Gas Corporation |
| Licence issued | 1 October 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 April 1985 |
| First waste input | 1 November 1984 |
| Last waste input | 1 April 1985 |
| Area | 0.69 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 379300, 410600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Ainsworth RoadInert
- Wellington StreetWaste types not recorded
- King George V Playing FieldsLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land off Newbold StreetInert
- Railway CuttingInert
- Railway Cuttings East and West Of Manchester RoadInert
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.