Turkey Red Dye Works
IndustrialCommercialInert
Turkey Red Dye Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Haslingden, Lancashire. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1984 and 1994, covering about 0.6 hectares. Reference EAHLD06850, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06850 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Turkey Red Dye Works |
| Address | Off Blackburn Road, Haslingden, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Winfield Shoe Company |
| Licence issued | 8 June 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 May 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Last waste input | 29 April 1994 |
| Area | 0.6 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 377600, 425800 |
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.
- 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
- Turkey Red Dye WorksInert
- Baxenden Dye WorksIndustrialInert
- G HoldenInert
- South West BoundarySpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
- Rising Bridge InnInert
- Rising Bridge Railway CuttingInert
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.