Princess Road
Household
Princess Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ashton-in-Makerfield. It received household waste from 1967, covering about 4.5 hectares. Reference EAHLD16492, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16492 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Princess Road |
| Address | Ashton-In-Makerfield, Wigan, Merseyside |
| Site operator | G W Lyon and Son |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1967 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 4.5 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 358600, 399000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Skitters WoodWaste types not recorded
- Pemberton Branch Railway CuttingSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Wigan RoadWaste 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.