Land at Kearsley Golf Centre
IndustrialCommercialInert
Land at Kearsley Golf Centre is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kearsley. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1976 and 1996, covering about 2.43 hectares. Reference EAHLD16255, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16255 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at Kearsley Golf Centre |
| Address | Off Moss Lane, Kearsley, Bolton, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr E R Warburton |
| Licence issued | 10 September 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 September 1989 |
| First waste input | 1 April 1976 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1996 |
| Area | 2.43 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 375500, 404100 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land at Bent Spur FarmWaste types not recorded
- Land at LinnyshawWaste types not recorded
- Land at Linnyshaw Moss FarmWaste types not recorded
- Land at Unity Brook FarmInert
- Kearsley Power StationWaste types not recorded
- Clifton MossWaste 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.