Wigan Road
Waste types not recorded
Wigan Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ince-in-Makerfield. It received waste of unrecorded type on dates not recorded, covering about 1.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD07424, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07424 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wigan Road |
| Address | Wigan Road, Whelley, Wigan, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.62 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 359500, 406600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Holt StreetInert
- Kirkless Landfill SiteLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land South of Makerfield WayIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Marsh HousesWaste types not recorded
- Woodshaw MineshaftSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- CEGBWaste types not recorded
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.