The Bongs
Special
The Bongs is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Widnes, Halton. It received special (hazardous) waste from 1991, covering about 1.25 hectares. Reference EAHLD16914, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16914 |
|---|---|
| Site name | The Bongs |
| Address | Crow Wood, Widnes, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Department of Transport |
| Licence holder | Department of Transport |
| Licence issued | 24 October 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.25 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 352400, 387200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- TAC works landfill / the BongsWaste types not recorded
- TAC works landfillWaste types not recorded
- Moorfield RoadWaste types not recorded
- Former Glebe Caravan Storage ParkWaste types not recorded
- Barrows Green LaneInert
- Micro Milling LimitedSpecialIndustrial
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.