Railway Cutting
Inert
Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Radcliffe. It received inert waste between 1988 and 1994, covering about 0.55 hectares. Reference EAHLD15885, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15885 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Railway Cutting |
| Address | Black Lane Station, Ainsworth Road, Radcliffe, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Progress Motors Limited |
| Licence issued | 29 July 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 August 1988 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1994 |
| Area | 0.55 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 377500, 408700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Rear of Constellation MillIndustrialInert
- Land adjacent to Ainsworth Road - Coventry RoadWaste types not recorded
- Cemetery RoadWaste types not recorded
- Disused Bury-Bolton Railway lineIndustrialInert
- Land at Cemetery RoadWaste types not recorded
- Cemetery RoadHouseholdCommercial
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.