Healey Mill
Inert
Healey Mill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Whitworth, Lancashire. It received inert waste in 1985, covering about 0.07 hectares. Reference EAHLD15679, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15679 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Healey Mill |
| Address | Off Whitworth Road, Rochdale, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | John Bright and Brothers Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 October 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 14 January 1987 |
| First waste input | 1 March 1985 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Area | 0.07 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 388600, 415800 |
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
- Stoneyhey FarmIndustrialInert
- Shawclough RoadWaste types not recorded
- Land off EastgateWaste types not recorded
- Land Opposite Oxford MillInert
- Spring MillSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Fieldhouse MillsIndustrial
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.