Bidston Moss
Household
Bidston Moss is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wallasey. It received household waste between 1972 and 1984, covering about 8.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD16783, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16783 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bidston Moss |
| Address | Link Road, Wirral, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Birkenhead Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | Birkenhead Urban District Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1972 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1984 |
| Area | 8.19 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 328500, 391000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land to the North and South of Bidston StationWaste types not recorded
- Bidston Moss WestHousehold
- Bidston MossIndustrialHousehold
- Compton Road TipHousehold
- Land to the North and South of Bidston StationWaste types not recorded
- Cross LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.