Landfill Check

Langton Branch Dock Line

Waste types not recorded

Langton Branch Dock Line is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bootle. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1978 and 1981, covering about 0.88 hectares. Reference EAHLD16652, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD16652
Site nameLangton Branch Dock Line
AddressCutting Rear Of Walton Prison To Ormskirk Railway Line, Merseyside
Site operatorR W Almond, Mersey Docks and Harbour Company
Licence holderR W Almond, Mersey Docks and Harbour Company
Licence issued25 July 1980
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 January 1978
Last waste input1 January 1981
Area0.88 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSouth NW
Grid reference333300, 394700

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

Boundary map

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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.