Hornby Dock
IndustrialInert
Hornby Dock is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bootle. It received industrial and inert waste from 1992, covering about 3.24 hectares. Reference EAHLD16625, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16625 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hornby Dock |
| Address | Regent Road, Bootle, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wynson Developments Limited |
| Licence issued | 5 June 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 3.24 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 332900, 395400 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Alexandra Branch Dock No.1Inert
- Langton Branch Dock LineWaste types not recorded
- Langton Graving DocksWaste types not recorded
- Langton Graving DocksWaste types not recorded
- Former Railway cutting between Rimrose Road and Fernhill RoadIndustrialHouseholdInert
- North Carriers 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.