Land at Dove Bank
IndustrialInert
Land at Dove Bank is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Little Lever. It received industrial and inert waste between 1929 and 1996, covering about 2.38 hectares. Reference EAHLD15941, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15941 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at Dove Bank |
| Address | Off Bowness Road, Little Lever, Bolton, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | William Townson and Sons Limited |
| Licence issued | 15 June 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 11 March 1996 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1929 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.38 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 374600, 407600 |
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
- Hall Lane Chemical TipWaste types not recorded
- Land at Davenport FarmWaste types not recorded
- Lomax Mill Tip No.2IndustrialCommercialInert
- Land to the rear of 659 Radcliffe RoadInert
- Land to the North of Hall LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land to the south of Hall LaneWaste 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.