Cross Lane
Industrial
Cross Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Winsford, Cheshire West and Chester. It received industrial waste between 1977 and 1979, covering about 1.14 hectares. Reference EAHLD17172, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17172 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cross Lane |
| Address | Church Minshull, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Five Towns Demolition Limited |
| Licence issued | 14 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 13 June 1979 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 13 June 1979 |
| Area | 1.14 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 367200, 360400 |
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.
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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.