Monks Ferry Docks / Rose Brae 3, 4, 5 and 6 Docks
Industrial
Monks Ferry Docks / Rose Brae 3, 4, 5 and 6 Docks is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Birkenhead. It received industrial waste from 1983, covering about 0.21 hectares. Reference EAHLD16876, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16876 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Monks Ferry Docks / Rose Brae 3, 4, 5 and 6 Docks |
| Address | Church Street, Birkenhead, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Merseyside Development Corporation |
| Licence holder | Merseyside Development Corporation |
| Licence issued | 20 July 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.21 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 333000, 388600 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Monks Ferry Docks / Rose Brae 3, 4, 5 and 6 DocksIndustrial
- Monks Ferry Docks / Rose Brae 3, 4, 5 and 6 DocksIndustrialInert
- Monks Ferry DocksIndustrial
- Monks Ferry DocksWaste types not recorded
- Monks Ferry Cutting / Monks Ferry branch / Monks Ferry BrowIndustrial
- Monks Ferry Brow / Rose Brae DocksIndustrial
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.