Warburton Park Farm
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Warburton Park Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Partington. It received industrial and commercial waste from 1978, covering about 1.78 hectares. Reference EAHLD16824, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16824 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Warburton Park Farm |
| Address | Near Lymm, Warburton, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Bowerpool Limited |
| Licence issued | 14 December 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.78 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 369800, 390000 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Warburton FarmSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Hollins GreenIndustrial
- Land adjacent to Lancashire Tar DistillersWaste types not recorded
- Lock LaneInert
- Moat LaneWaste types not recorded
- Land Adjacent to BrickworksLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial
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.