Milking Lane
Inert
Milking Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen. It received inert waste between 1979 and 1980, covering about 0.79 hectares. Reference EAHLD06953, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06953 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Milking Lane |
| Address | Milking Lane, Lower Darwen, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Reed Paper and Board (UK) Limited |
| Licence issued | 31 May 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 May 1979 |
| Last waste input | 31 August 1980 |
| Area | 0.79 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 369100, 424700 |
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
- Lower Darwen Paper MillLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Wolstenholme Bronze PowdersIndustrialCommercialInert
- Anchor RoadWaste types not recorded
- Hollins Paper MillIndustrialInert
- Coal Pit FarmInert
- Bog HeightIndustrialCommercialInert
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.