Midge Hill
Commercial
Midge Hill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Mossley. It received commercial waste between 1964 and 1972, covering about 1.38 hectares. Reference EAHLD31947, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD31947 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Midge Hill |
| Address | Mossley, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Borough of Mossley |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 14 December 1964 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1972 |
| Area | 1.38 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 397700, 403300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Mossley Holder StationIndustrialInert
- Quick Edge QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Woodend MillsInert
- Land off Mossley RoadWaste types not recorded
- Woodend MillInert
- Land at Hart 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.