Moreton Brickworks / Old Brickworks
HouseholdCommercial
Moreton Brickworks / Old Brickworks is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hoylake. It received household and commercial waste from 1990, covering about 9.57 hectares. Reference EAHLD16792, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16792 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Moreton Brickworks / Old Brickworks |
| Address | Pasture Road, Moreton, Wirral, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Wallasey Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | Wimpey Waste Management |
| Licence issued | 12 September 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 9.57 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 325500, 390700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Moreton BrickworksWaste types not recorded
- Carr Lane BrickworksLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Leasowe Golf ClubInert
- Acres RoadIndustrialInert
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.