Mossley Holder Station
IndustrialInert
Mossley Holder Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Mossley. It received industrial and inert waste between 1986 and 1988, covering about 0.74 hectares. Reference EAHLD16311, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16311 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Mossley Holder Station |
| Address | Manchester Road, Mossley, Tameside, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Gas North Western |
| Licence issued | 4 November 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 September 1989 |
| First waste input | 30 June 1986 |
| Last waste input | 30 November 1988 |
| Area | 0.74 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 398000, 403400 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Midge HillCommercial
- Woodend MillsInert
- Land off Mossley RoadWaste types not recorded
- Woodend MillInert
- Quick Edge QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Land adjacent to Warlow BrookWaste 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.