Lower House Farm
Inert
Lower House Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Milnrow. It received inert waste between 1971 and 1985, covering about 0.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD15722, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15722 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lower House Farm |
| Address | Kiln Lane, Milnrow |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mrs Dorothy Trafford |
| Licence issued | 23 May 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 July 1985 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1971 |
| Last waste input | 17 July 1985 |
| Area | 0.53 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 393200, 413200 |
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
- Birchenley Farm Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Birchinley FarmInert
- Birchinley FarmIndustrialCommercialInert
- Annis Hill FarmWaste types not recorded
- Birchinley FarmInert
- Wildhouse FarmWaste 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.