Saunderclough Works
Inert
Saunderclough Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bacup, Lancashire. It received inert waste between 1917 and 1977, covering about 0.06 hectares. Reference EAHLD34957, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD34957 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Saunderclough Works |
| Address | North Western Ceramic Pipe Co., Bacup Road, Todmorden |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | N W Ceramic Pipe Company |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1917 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Area | 0.06 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 389800, 423800 |
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
- Holden Gate Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Clough Head QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Former PipeworksInert
- Slate Pit HillHouseholdInert
- Flower Scar RoadWaste types not recorded
- Land off Todmorden RoadIndustrialHousehold
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.