Gorstage Farm
Inert
Gorstage Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Northwich, Cheshire West and Chester. It received inert waste in 1991, covering about 6.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD17112, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17112 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Gorstage Farm |
| Address | Weaverham, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Birse Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 14 March 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 November 1991 |
| First waste input | 1 May 1991 |
| Last waste input | 31 August 1991 |
| Area | 6.62 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 360800, 373100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Hefferston Grange FarmInert
- Grange Lane FarmInert
- Mere House FarmInert
- Rear of 312 Chester RoadIndustrial
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.