Firgrove Playing Fields/Dobfield
CommercialInert
Firgrove Playing Fields/Dobfield is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Milnrow. It received commercial and inert waste between 1936 and 1993, covering about 5.07 hectares. Reference EAHLD15709, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15709 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Firgrove Playing Fields/Dobfield |
| Address | Off Belfield Lane, Rochdale |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Rochdale and District Playing Fields Association |
| Licence issued | 3 August 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1936 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1993 |
| Area | 5.07 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 391900, 413700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Crompton ETWIndustrial
- Halliwell StreetSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Dyehouse LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Wildhouse FarmWaste types not recorded
- Clegg Hall RoadInert
- Birchinley FarmInert
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.