Upper Swinesey Farm
Inert
Upper Swinesey Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bramhall. It received inert waste between 1983 and 1990, covering about 0.18 hectares. Reference EAHLD17853, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17853 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Upper Swinesey Farm |
| Address | Woodford |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Hall Brothers |
| Licence issued | 1 December 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 September 1983 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 0.18 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 390100, 382900 |
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
- Upper Swineseye FarmInert
- Ashmere FarmIndustrialCommercialInert
- Lilac CottageInert
- Hill Top FarmIndustrialCommercialInert
- Agricultural Land ReclamationInert
- Hill Green FarmHouseholdCommercialInert
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.