Herculaneum Docks Nos. 3 and 4
Industrial
Herculaneum Docks Nos. 3 and 4 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Liverpool. It received industrial waste between 1981 and 1984, covering about 4.05 hectares. Reference EAHLD16909, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16909 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Herculaneum Docks Nos. 3 and 4 |
| Address | Liverpool, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Merseyside Development Corporation |
| Licence holder | N W Plant and Commercial Limited |
| Licence issued | 19 March 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 15 October 1982 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1981 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Area | 4.05 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 335400, 387300 |
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
- Herculaneum Graving Dock No.2Waste types not recorded
- Herculaneum Graving Dock No.4Household
- Herculaneum Graving Dock No.3Household
- Herculaneum Graving Dock No.1Waste types not recorded
- Herculaneum Branch DockWaste types not recorded
- Harrington DockInert
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.