Higher Swanscoe Farm
Inert
Higher Swanscoe Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bollington, Cheshire East. It received inert waste between 1991 and 1999, covering about 0.6 hectares. Reference EAHLD17257, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17257 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Higher Swanscoe Farm |
| Address | Rainow, Macclesfield, Cheshire |
| Site operator | J Torr Limited |
| Licence holder | J Torr Limited |
| Licence issued | 3 December 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1999 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.6 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 393100, 376000 |
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
- Higher Swanscoe FarmInert
- Land at Hobson HouseLiquid / sludgeInert
- Bolington Dredging TipWaste types not recorded
- Land at Disused Railway CuttingInert
- Hurdsfield Industrial EstateWaste types not recorded
- Clough BankWaste 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.