Lower Fullwood Farm
HouseholdInert
Lower Fullwood Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shaw. It received household and inert waste between 1979 and 1982, covering about 2.16 hectares. Reference EAHLD15895, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15895 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lower Fullwood Farm |
| Address | Shaw, Oldham, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr S Riddell |
| Licence issued | 6 November 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 December 1979 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Area | 2.16 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 394200, 408500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Moss Hey StreetWaste types not recorded
- Briar Mill / Lilac MillWaste types not recorded
- Moss Hey MillWaste types not recorded
- Moss Hey MillWaste types not recorded
- Osram Sports GroundWaste types not recorded
- Briar 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.