Herculaneum Graving Dock No.3
Household
Herculaneum Graving Dock No.3 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Liverpool. It received household waste between 1979 and 1981, covering about 0.85 hectares. Reference EAHLD16918, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16918 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Herculaneum Graving Dock No.3 |
| Address | Liverpool, Merseyside |
| Site operator | North West Plant and Commercials Limited |
| Licence holder | Merseyside Development Corporation |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1979 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Area | 0.85 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 335600, 387200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Herculaneum Graving Dock No.4Household
- Herculaneum Graving Dock No.2Waste types not recorded
- Herculaneum Branch DockWaste types not recorded
- Herculaneum Graving Dock No.1Waste types not recorded
- Herculaneum Docks Nos. 3 and 4Industrial
- Old Dingle Oil TerminalIndustrialInert
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.