Spout House Farm
Inert
Spout House Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen. It received inert waste between 1996 and 1997, covering about 5.27 hectares. Reference EAHLD07584, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07584 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Spout House Farm |
| Address | Bog Height Road, Earcroft, Darwen, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Spout House Farm |
| Licence holder | Sir Alfred McAlpine - AMEC Joint Venture |
| Licence issued | 29 March 1996 |
| Licence surrendered | 11 April 2002 |
| First waste input | 1 July 1996 |
| Last waste input | 1 July 1997 |
| Area | 5.27 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 367400, 424200 |
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
- Bog HeightIndustrialCommercialInert
- Anchor RoadWaste types not recorded
- Yew Tree FarmInert
- Hollins Paper MillIndustrialInert
- Bunkers HillWaste types not recorded
- Lower Darwen Paper MillLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
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.