Railway Cuttings East and West Of Manchester Road
Inert
Railway Cuttings East and West Of Manchester Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bury. It received inert waste in 1988, covering about 0.49 hectares. Reference EAHLD15802, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15802 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Railway Cuttings East and West Of Manchester Road |
| Address | Town Hall, Manchester Road, Bury, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Bury Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 20 April 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 February 1988 |
| Last waste input | 30 June 1988 |
| Area | 0.49 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 380100, 410400 |
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
- Railway Cuttings East and West Of Manchester RoadInert
- Railway CuttingInert
- Peel CollegeWaste types not recorded
- Wellington StreetWaste types not recorded
- Wellington RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- WoodfieldsLiquid / 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.