Skippool Marsh
Commercial
Skippool Marsh is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire. It received commercial waste between 1929 and 1972, covering about 0.87 hectares. Reference EAHLD32077, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD32077 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Skippool Marsh |
| Address | Preston, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Poulton-le-Fylde Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1929 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1972 |
| Area | 0.87 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 335800, 440800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Skippool CreekHousehold
- Poulton Railway CuttingInert
- Limebrest FarmInert
- Fylde Skip HireWaste types not recorded
- Poulton Industrial EstateInert
- Stanah House FarmHousehold
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.