Weaste Quarry
HouseholdCommercialInert
Weaste Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Eccles. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1963 and 1990, covering about 12.34 hectares. Reference EAHLD16515, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16515 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Weaste Quarry |
| Address | Eccles New Road, Salford, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Manchester Ship Canal Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 13 December 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 May 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1963 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 12.34 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 378600, 398300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- 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
- Waste TipCommercial
- Weaste QuarrySpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Stott LaneWaste types not recorded
- Guide StreetWaste types not recorded
- Trafford Ecology Park and Aidleys TransportIndustrial
- Barton Power StationIndustrialInert
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.