Monks Ferry Railway Cutting / S C Jones Rail Tunnels / Woodside Tunnel
Inert
Monks Ferry Railway Cutting / S C Jones Rail Tunnels / Woodside Tunnel is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Birkenhead. It received inert waste between 1981 and 1983, covering about 1.96 hectares. Reference EAHLD16857, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16857 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Monks Ferry Railway Cutting / S C Jones Rail Tunnels / Woodside Tunnel |
| Address | Church Street, Birkenhead, Merseyside |
| Site operator | S C Jones Limited |
| Licence holder | R Perry and Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 21 April 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 December 1981 |
| Last waste input | 31 October 1983 |
| Area | 1.96 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 332700, 388800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Monks Ferry Cutting / Monks Ferry branch / Monks Ferry BrowIndustrial
- Monks Ferry Brow / Rose Brae DocksIndustrial
- Monks Ferry Docks / Rose Brae 3, 4, 5 and 6 DocksIndustrial
- Monks Ferry Docks / Rose Brae 3, 4, 5 and 6 DocksIndustrial
- Monks Ferry DocksIndustrial
- Monks Ferry Docks / Rose Brae 3, 4, 5 and 6 DocksIndustrialInert
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.