Woolfold Paper Mills
Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Woolfold Paper Mills is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bury. It received liquid/sludge, industrial and inert waste between 1950 and 1986, covering about 0.49 hectares. Reference EAHLD15768, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15768 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Woolfold Paper Mills |
| Address | Tottington, Bury |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Olive's Paper Mill Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 6 November 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1950 |
| Last waste input | 2 April 1986 |
| Area | 0.49 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 379400, 411500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Woolfold paper MillsLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Land South of Cricket GroundWaste types not recorded
- King George V Playing FieldsLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land off Newbold StreetInert
- Ainsworth RoadInert
- TottingtonInert
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.