Huncoat Colliery
Inert
Huncoat Colliery is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Accrington, Lancashire. It received inert waste between 1981 and 1983, covering about 11.31 hectares. Reference EAHLD07582, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07582 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Huncoat Colliery |
| Address | Enfield Road, Huncoat, Accrington, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | J Pickavance Civil Engineering Limited |
| Licence issued | 30 November 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 October 1983 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Area | 11.31 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 377200, 431000 |
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
- Enfield Road Meadow Croft TipInert
- Huncoat Colliery TipCommercial
- Huncoat Sewage and Treatment WorksIndustrialCommercialInert
- Mount QuarryInert
- Enfield RoadIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Heys Head QuarryHousehold
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.