Fiddlers Ferry Power Station Lagoon C
Industrial
Fiddlers Ferry Power Station Lagoon C is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Widnes, Halton. It received industrial waste between 1976 and 1985, covering about 23.94 hectares. Reference EAHLD16961, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16961 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Fiddlers Ferry Power Station Lagoon C |
| Address | Widnes Road, Cuerdley, Warrington, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Powergen Plc |
| Licence issued | 14 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1976 |
| Last waste input | 31 January 1985 |
| Area | 23.94 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 355100, 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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Central Electricity Generating BoardIndustrialInert
- Fiddlers Ferry Power StationIndustrialInert
- Fiddlers Ferry Power StationIndustrialInert
- Fiddlers Ferry Power Station Lagoon BIndustrial
- St Helens CanalWaste types not recorded
- Fiddler's Ferry Power StationIndustrial
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.