Former Purle Tip
Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Former Purle Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Lymm, Warrington. It received liquid/sludge, industrial and inert waste between 1960 and 1970, covering about 12.81 hectares. Reference EAHLD30198, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD30198 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Former Purle Tip |
| Address | Moss Side Lane, Rixton, Warrington, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Redland Purple (Northern) Limited |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1960 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1970 |
| Area | 12.81 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 368500, 391300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- 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
- Rixton TipIndustrialInert
- Moss Side Lane BrickworksIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Land Adjacent to BrickworksLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial
- Moat LaneSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Purle TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Proposed Industrial TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
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.