Harbour Lane
Household
Harbour Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bolton. It received household waste between 1963 and 1973, covering about 1.8 hectares. Reference EAHLD15669, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15669 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Harbour Lane |
| Address | Off Harbour Lane, Edgworth, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Turton Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 October 1963 |
| Last waste input | 30 April 1973 |
| Area | 1.8 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 373800, 416600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Horrocks FoldWaste types not recorded
- Holden FoldWaste types not recorded
- Dingle FarmInert
- Crowthorne ReservoirInert
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.