Sewage Works
Waste types not recorded
Sewage Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Whitworth, Lancashire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1948 and 1970, covering about 0.7 hectares. Reference EAHLD32038, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD32038 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sewage Works |
| Address | Market Street, Tonacliffe, Whitworth, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Whitworth Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | Whitworth Urban District Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1948 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1970 |
| Area | 0.7 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 388200, 417200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Spring MillSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Land off EastgateWaste types not recorded
- Healey MillInert
- Mill LodgeWaste types not recorded
- Festival ParkWaste types not recorded
- Stoneyhey FarmIndustrialInert
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.