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Historic landfill sites in Neston, Cheshire West and Chester

The Environment Agency records 11 historic landfill sites in and around Neston, Cheshire West and Chester. covering roughly 17 hectares in total. The largest is Five Ways Farm at 6.1 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Neston (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Five Ways Farm6.1 ha1989Inert
Leighton Road4.42 ha1978IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Riverside Walk1.98 haWaste types not recorded
Wirral Country Park1.58 haWaste types not recorded
Well Lane0.57 ha1981IndustrialInert
Haddon Hall0.52 ha1992IndustrialInert
Disused Tip0.44 haWaste types not recorded
Overdale Farm0.36 ha1987IndustrialInert
Morgans Lagoon0.21 haWaste types not recorded
Rocklands Clatter Bridge / Rocklands Lane Tip0.21 haIndustrial
Rocklands Clatter / Junction Grange Drive / Rocklands Lane Tip0.11 haIndustrial

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.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Neston?
11 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Neston town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
How do I check a specific address in Neston?
Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

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Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.