Pilsworth Sand Pit
Industrial
Pilsworth Sand Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bury. It received industrial waste between 1987 and 1989, covering about 0.82 hectares. Reference EAHLD15857, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15857 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Pilsworth Sand Pit |
| Address | Moor Hole farm, Pilsworth Road, Bury, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Terry Adams Limited |
| Licence issued | 16 December 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 11 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Area | 0.82 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 382200, 409100 |
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
- Pilsworth Sand Pit Phase ASpecialIndustrialInert
- Land off Gigg LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Roach BankInert
- Goshen Playing FieldsInert
- Goshen Playing FieldsIndustrialInert
- Wellington RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.