Mollywood Lane
Industrial
Mollywood Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Padiham, Lancashire. It received industrial waste in 1982, covering about 0.96 hectares. Reference EAHLD07381, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07381 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Mollywood Lane |
| Address | Mollywood Lane, Padiham, Burnley |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 19 April 1982 |
| Last waste input | 6 June 1982 |
| Area | 0.96 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 380700, 432200 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land between M65 and Railway MollywoodInert
- Lowerhouse LodgesIndustrialInert
- Lowerhouse Mill LodgesWaste types not recorded
- Lowerhouse LodgesInert
- Lowerhouse LodgesIndustrialInert
- Lowerhouse FoldIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.