Nori (Whinney Hill) Quarry
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Nori (Whinney Hill) Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1978 and 1983, covering about 11.61 hectares. Reference EAHLD06852, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06852 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Nori (Whinney Hill) Quarry |
| Address | Whinney Hill Road, Accrington, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | The Accrington Brick and Tile Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 4 April 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 April 1983 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 11.61 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 375800, 430400 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Nori BrickworksIndustrialInert
- Accrington Brick and Tile WorksInert
- Accrington Brick and Tile WorksInert
- Bold Venture FarmWaste types not recorded
- LanesideHousehold
- Moorfield Industrial EstateCommercialInert
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.