Higher Duckpits
Inert
Higher Duckpits is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Brierfield, Lancashire. It received inert waste between 1979 and 1981, covering about 2.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD06837, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06837 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Higher Duckpits |
| Address | Adamsons Tip, Bounded by M65 and Pendle Water, Adamsons Bridge, Reedley Hallows, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | RDL Contracting Limited |
| Licence issued | 12 July 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 12 July 1979 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Area | 2.53 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 383300, 434900 |
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
- Adamsons FarmHousehold
- Barden TipHouseholdCommercial
- Burnley Sewage Treatment WorksLiquid / sludge
- Heald Road WorksWaste types not recorded
- Railway LineWaste types not recorded
- Greenhead LaneInert
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.