Talbot Mill
IndustrialInert
Talbot Mill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chorley, Lancashire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1973 and 1983, covering about 0.63 hectares. Reference EAHLD07509, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07509 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Talbot Mill |
| Address | Froom Street, Chorley, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Courtaulds Limited |
| Licence issued | 16 December 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1973 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Area | 0.63 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 359500, 417900 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Chortex MillInert
- Chorley Service ReservoirInert
- Former Heapey Linoleum WorksInert
- Thomas WitterIndustrialInert
- Higher House LaneInert
- Royal Ordnance Factory Tip No.6Waste 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.