Norley Quarry
Waste types not recorded
Norley Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Standish. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1972 and 1978, covering about 3.56 hectares. Reference EAHLD16091, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16091 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Norley Quarry |
| Address | Off Selwork Drive, Wigan, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1974 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 April 1972 |
| Last waste input | 25 July 1978 |
| Area | 3.56 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 355000, 405600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
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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.