Crab Woods
Inert
Crab Woods is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Crosby. It received inert waste between 1984 and 1985, covering about 0.76 hectares. Reference EAHLD06979, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06979 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Crab Woods |
| Address | Little Crosby, Merseyside |
| Site operator | The Whitlock Blundell Trustees |
| Licence holder | M P Whitlock |
| Licence issued | 21 November 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 October 1985 |
| First waste input | 1 September 1984 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1985 |
| Area | 0.76 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 332400, 400700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
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.