Land at Ashcrofts Farm
Inert
Land at Ashcrofts Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Horwich. It received inert waste between 1985 and 1987, covering about 1.14 hectares. Reference EAHLD15874, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15874 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at Ashcrofts Farm |
| Address | Chorley Road, Westhoughton, Bolton, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | A and M Snape (Eccles) Limited |
| Licence issued | 12 February 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Area | 1.14 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 362900, 408700 |
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
- Land off Scot LaneWaste types not recorded
- RedmossSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Asbestos TipWaste types not recorded
- Barton Fold FarmSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land at Hall LaneWaste types not recorded
- Haigh MineshaftLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHousehold
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.