Land at Grape Mill
Inert
Land at Grape Mill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Royton. It received inert waste between 1990 and 1992, covering about 0.46 hectares. Reference EAHLD15965, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15965 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at Grape Mill |
| Address | Holden Fold Lane, Union Street, Royton, Oldham, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Charles and Wildgoose Limited |
| Licence issued | 18 April 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 30 September 1990 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1992 |
| Area | 0.46 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 391700, 407300 |
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
- Grape Mill EastWaste types not recorded
- Delta MillIndustrial
- Land at Crompton StreetWaste types not recorded
- Land at Thorp RoadIndustrialInert
- Land at Holly MillWaste types not recorded
- Land at Holly 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.