Stone Pit Field
CommercialInert
Stone Pit Field is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Westhoughton. It received commercial and inert waste between 1990 and 1991, covering about 1.6 hectares. Reference EAHLD15887, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15887 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Stone Pit Field |
| Address | Lostock Lane, Lostock, Bolton, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr I Gregory |
| Licence issued | 30 May 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 October 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 November 1990 |
| Last waste input | 28 February 1991 |
| Area | 1.6 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 365000, 408600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Barton Fold FarmSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Chorley RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- RedmossSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Asbestos TipWaste types not recorded
- Chusley Gate LaneHouseholdCommercialInert
- BRECWaste 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.