Welch Whittle Mine Shafts
SpecialIndustrialCommercial
Welch Whittle Mine Shafts is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Standish. It received special (hazardous), industrial and commercial waste between 1970 and 1980, covering about 0.02 hectares. Reference EAHLD07567, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07567 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Welch Whittle Mine Shafts |
| Address | Town Lane, Charnock Richard, Coppull, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Waste Incineration Limited |
| Licence issued | 12 December 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 2 July 1980 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1970 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Area | 0.02 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 354200, 413400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- 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
- Waste Incineration LimitedInert
- Chisnall Hall Mine Shafts / CollieryLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- White Hill FarmInert
- Heatons FarmInert
- Darlington SidingsIndustrialInert
- D and H. Sand Supplies LimitedIndustrialCommercial
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.