Well Lane
IndustrialInert
Well Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Neston, Cheshire West and Chester. It received industrial and inert waste between 1970 and 1981, covering about 0.57 hectares. Reference EAHLD17074, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17074 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Well Lane |
| Address | Furrocks Estate, Neston, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Barnston Estates Limited |
| Licence issued | 18 August 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | 2 March 1981 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1970 |
| Last waste input | 2 March 1981 |
| Area | 0.57 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern CY |
| Grid reference | 329700, 376200 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Riverside WalkWaste types not recorded
- Wirral Country ParkWaste types not recorded
- Disused TipWaste types not recorded
- Overdale FarmIndustrialInert
- Morgans LagoonWaste types not recorded
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.