Land at Thorp Road
IndustrialInert
Land at Thorp Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Royton. It received industrial and inert waste from 1961, covering about 2.94 hectares. Reference EAHLD15937, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15937 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at Thorp Road |
| Address | Thorp Road, Royton, Oldham, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Royton Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1961 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.94 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 391500, 407700 |
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
- Park and Sandy Lane Mill No.1Waste types not recorded
- Grape Mill EastWaste types not recorded
- Land at Crompton StreetWaste types not recorded
- Delta MillIndustrial
- Land at Parkside MillWaste types not recorded
- Land at Star 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.