Landfill Check

Land adjacent to Macclesfield Canal at Bosley

Waste types not recorded

Land adjacent to Macclesfield Canal at Bosley is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Macclesfield, Cheshire East. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1994 and 2001, covering about 0.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD18019, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD18019
Site nameLand adjacent to Macclesfield Canal at Bosley
AddressOff Turnstall Road, Bosley, Congleton, Cheshire
Site operatorBritish Waterways
Licence holderBritish Waterways
Licence issued1 May 1994
Licence surrendered26 February 2001
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.54 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSouth NW
Grid reference390500, 365700

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.