Landfill Check

Halton Mill

Liquid / sludgeIndustrial

Halton Mill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Lancaster, Lancashire. It received liquid/sludge and industrial waste in 1979, covering about 0.1 hectares. Reference EAHLD07542, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD07542
Site nameHalton Mill
AddressMill Lane, Low Mill, Halton, Lancashire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderLunevale Products Limited
Licence issued8 September 1977
Licence surrendered26 April 1990
First waste input1 September 1979
Last waste input31 December 1979
Area0.1 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentYes
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral NW
Grid reference350500, 464700

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

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.