Landfill Check

Tup Row Delf Tip

Liquid / sludge

Tup Row Delf Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Horwich. It received liquid/sludge waste until 1980, covering about 1.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD07514, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD07514
Site nameTup Row Delf Tip
AddressGeorges Lane, Wallsuches, Horwich, Greater Manchester
Site operatorManager, Penine Division, NWWA
Licence holderManager, Rivers Division, NWWA
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste input31 December 1980
Area1.2 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaCentral NW
Grid reference365800, 411400

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Liquid / sludge:
liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

  • BREC
    Waste types not recorded
  • Asbestos Tip
    Waste types not recorded
  • Horwich Works
    SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
  • Redmoss
    SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert

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.