Hooton Brickworks
HouseholdCommercialInert
Hooton Brickworks is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bebington. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1952 and 1982, covering about 9.28 hectares. Reference EAHLD15586, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15586 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hooton Brickworks |
| Address | Off Hooton Road, Hooton, Ellesmere Port, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Wirral Waste Limited |
| Licence holder | Brook Plc |
| Licence issued | 1 October 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 August 1982 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1952 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 9.28 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 334600, 378600 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Eastham RakeLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Eastham RakeLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Hooton TipIndustrialInert
- Hooton Works Trading EstateWaste types not recorded
- Smithy LaneWaste types not recorded
- Land Oposite Leaswood CottagesWaste 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.