Haigh Mineshaft
Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHousehold
Haigh Mineshaft is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hindley. It received liquid/sludge, industrial and household waste from 1947. Reference EAHLD15888, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15888 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Haigh Mineshaft |
| Address | Haigh Road, Aspull, Wigan |
| Site operator | W Ainscough And Sons |
| Licence holder | Thomas Witter and Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 24 November 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1947 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | Not recorded |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 361000, 408700 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Haigh RoadHousehold
- ToddingtonCommercial
- Land off Scot LaneWaste types not recorded
- Marsh HousesWaste types not recorded
- Meadow PitLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land at Hall LaneWaste types not recorded
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.