Fiddlers Ferry Power Station
IndustrialInert
Fiddlers Ferry Power Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Widnes, Halton. It received industrial and inert waste between 1975 and 1980, covering about 45.25 hectares. Reference EAHLD16959, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16959 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Fiddlers Ferry Power Station |
| Address | Fiddlers Ferry Power Station, Penketh, Near Warrington |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Central Electricity Generating Board |
| Licence issued | 31 October 1975 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1980 |
| First waste input | 1 October 1975 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Area | 45.25 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 354500, 385200 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- St Helens CanalWaste types not recorded
- Fiddlers Ferry Power StationIndustrialInert
- Central Electricity Generating BoardIndustrialInert
- Fiddlers Ferry Power Station Lagoon CIndustrial
- Johnson's Lane TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Johnson's Lane TipSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.