Hole Bottom Clough (Brook)
IndustrialInert
Hole Bottom Clough (Brook) is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Failsworth. It received industrial and inert waste between 1980 and 1984, covering about 0.75 hectares. Reference EAHLD16373, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16373 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hole Bottom Clough (Brook) |
| Address | Off Wickentree Lane, Hollinwood, Failsworth, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Sheelin Construction |
| Licence issued | 1 December 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 September 1995 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Area | 0.75 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 390000, 402200 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land at Duke StreetWaste types not recorded
- Land at Belgrave RoadInert
- Hollinwood Branch CanalWaste types not recorded
- Land adjacent to Moston BrookWaste types not recorded
- Land at Albert StreetWaste types not recorded
- Asia MillWaste 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.