Marksend Quarry
Liquid / sludge
Marksend Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bollington, Cheshire East. It received liquid/sludge waste between 1979 and 1982, covering about 6.92 hectares. Reference EAHLD17081, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17081 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Marksend Quarry |
| Address | Kerridge, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr V P Ashton |
| Licence issued | 25 June 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 July 1982 |
| First waste input | 25 June 1979 |
| Last waste input | 28 July 1982 |
| Area | 6.92 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 394200, 375700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Higher Swanscoe FarmInert
- Higher Swanscoe FarmInert
- Hurdsfield Industrial EstateWaste types not recorded
- Bolington Dredging TipWaste types not recorded
- Land at Hobson HouseLiquid / sludgeInert
- Land at Disused Railway CuttingInert
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.