Hillock Vale Quarry
IndustrialCommercialInert
Hillock Vale Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Accrington, Lancashire. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1977 and 1999, covering about 3.03 hectares. Reference EAHLD06849, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06849 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hillock Vale Quarry |
| Address | Burnley Road, Hillock Vale, Accrington, Lancashire |
| Site operator | W C and J Thwaite Limited |
| Licence holder | W C and J Thwaite Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 December 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 16 July 2003 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1999 |
| Area | 3.03 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 377500, 429500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Foxwood ChaseHousehold
- Plantation StreetIndustrialHousehold
- Arden TipHousehold
- Mount QuarryInert
- Heys Head QuarryHousehold
- Huncoat Colliery TipCommercial
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.