Historic landfill sites in Prescot
The Environment Agency records 27 historic landfill sites in and around Prescot. covering roughly 179 hectares in total. The largest is Lee Park Golf Course at 33.89 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Prescot (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lee Park Golf Course | 33.89 ha | — | Inert |
| Coalgate Lane Landfill Site | 30.47 ha | 1983 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Whiston Tip | 20.25 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Childwall College / Childwell Abbey Road / Childwall Lane | 15.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land at New Pole Farm | 12.28 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Brickfields | 9.68 ha | — | Inert |
| Crab Tree Rough | 8.91 ha | — | Industrial |
| Whiston Tip | 7.92 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Sewage Works | 7.07 ha | — | Liquid / sludge |
| Whiston Tip | 5.9 ha | 1973 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| West View Tip | 3.17 ha | 1978 | Waste types not recorded |
| Coalgate Lane Wimpeym, Tushinghams Quarry, Paradise Lane, Stadt-Moers Park | 2.6 ha | 1979 | Industrial |
| Huyton Quarry | 2.49 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Gateacre Comprehensive School | 2.47 ha | 1959 | Household |
| Tushinghams Quarry, Coalgate Lane, Paradise Lane, Stadt-Moers Park | 2.37 ha | 1979 | Commercial |
| Mill Lane | 2.22 ha | 1974 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| Prescot WWTW | 2.04 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Prescot WWTW | 1.8 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Woolton Quarry (North) | 1.78 ha | 1983 | Inert |
| Woolton Quarry South | 1.65 ha | — | Inert |
| Childwall Abbey Playing Field | 1.54 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Holt Lane Quarry Landfill Site | 1.1 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Holt Lane Quarry | 0.61 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Green's Bridge Farm | 0.6 ha | 1983 | Inert |
| The Dell At Delph Quarry | 0.54 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Deans Farm | 0.36 ha | — | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Rocklands Hotel Quarry | 0.29 ha | 1971 | Waste 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.
Common questions
- How many former landfill sites are there in Prescot?
- 27 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Prescot 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 Prescot?
- 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.
Nearby areas
Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.