Landfill Check

Land Off Rumworth Road

IndustrialInert

Land Off Rumworth Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Westhoughton. It received industrial and inert waste between 1979 and 1985, covering about 8.7 hectares. Reference EAHLD15901, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD15901
Site nameLand Off Rumworth Road
AddressOff Rumworth Road, Lostock, Near Bolton, Greater Manchester
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderJames Buckley
Licence issued6 November 1979
Licence surrendered22 September 1995
First waste input1 December 1979
Last waste input31 December 1985
Area8.7 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSouth NW
Grid reference366900, 408200

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

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.