Land at Freightman Hillock Farm
IndustrialInert
Land at Freightman Hillock Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Radcliffe. It received industrial and inert waste between 1934 and 1993, covering about 1.72 hectares. Reference EAHLD18084, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD18084 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at Freightman Hillock Farm |
| Address | Off Outwood Road, Radcliffe, Bury, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | The Radcliffe Paper Mill Company |
| Licence issued | 19 October 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1934 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1993 |
| Area | 1.72 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 378000, 406200 |
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
- King George V Playing FieldsWaste types not recorded
- Land South West Of Sion StreetInert
- Land at Mount Sion StreetIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Stand Golf CourseWaste types not recorded
- Lower Heaps FarmIndustrialInert
- Land South Of Ringley RoadInert
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.