Frodsham Marsh Tipping Lagoon
Liquid / sludgeInert
Frodsham Marsh Tipping Lagoon is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Frodsham, Cheshire West and Chester. It received liquid/sludge and inert waste between 1982 and 1983, covering about 47.95 hectares. Reference EAHLD17247, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17247 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Frodsham Marsh Tipping Lagoon |
| Address | Frodsham Marsh, Runcorn, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Manchester Ship Canal Company Limited |
| Licence holder | Manchester Ship Canal Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 16 September 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1983 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Area | 47.95 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 350300, 379100 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Weston QuarrySpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- ICI Weston North QuarryWaste types not recorded
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.