Bidston Moss
IndustrialHousehold
Bidston Moss is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wallasey. It received industrial and household waste between 1972 and 1984, covering about 9.98 hectares. Reference EAHLD16770, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16770 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bidston Moss |
| Address | East and West of the Bidston Link Road, Wirral, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Birkenhead Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | Wirral Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 16 September 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1972 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1984 |
| Area | 9.98 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 328800, 391100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Bidston MossHousehold
- Bidston Moss WestHousehold
- Bidston Moss Landfill SiteLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Cross LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land to the North and South of Bidston StationWaste types not recorded
- Compton Road TipHousehold
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.