Roach Mill
IndustrialHousehold
Roach Mill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Heywood. It received industrial and household waste from 1978, covering about 3.14 hectares. Reference EAHLD15753, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15753 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Roach Mill |
| Address | Peel Lane, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Globegrove Limited / Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 6 June 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 3.14 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 384900, 411700 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Former Gasholder SiteWaste types not recorded
- Buly and Rochdale Old RoadIndustrialCommercialInert
- Hooley Bridge WorksWaste types not recorded
- Simpson Clough MillsSpecialIndustrialInert
- Peel LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Hooley BridgeWaste 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.