Moorside Mills / Lodge
Inert
Moorside Mills / Lodge is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swinton. It received inert waste between 1983 and 1986, covering about 0.38 hectares. Reference EAHLD16408, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16408 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Moorside Mills / Lodge |
| Address | Victoria Lane, Swinton, Manchester, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Holdsworth and Gibb Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 July 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 August 1983 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Area | 0.38 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 376700, 401500 |
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
- Moorside MillsWaste types not recorded
- Owen HouseWaste types not recorded
- Lightbourne Green AllotmentsIndustrialInert
- Land Next to the M61Waste types not recorded
- Ellesmere Port Sewage WorksWaste types not recorded
- Old Railway CuttingWaste 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.