West End of Egerton Dock
IndustrialInert
West End of Egerton Dock is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Birkenhead. It received industrial and inert waste between 1990 and 1993, covering about 0.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD16838, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16838 |
|---|---|
| Site name | West End of Egerton Dock |
| Address | Egerton Dock, Birkenhead, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Merseyside Development Corporation - Wirral District Council |
| Licence issued | 17 October 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 March 1993 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.19 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 332100, 389600 |
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
- Morpeth Lock and Branch DockIndustrialInert
- Alfred Dock River EntranceIndustrial
- Corn / Grain Warehouse Dock / East float GWH Dock / Liverpool Grain StorageIndustrialInert
- Liverpool Grain Storage and T. Grain WarehouseIndustrial
- Monks Ferry Railway Cutting / S C Jones Rail Tunnels / Woodside TunnelInert
- Monks Ferry Brow / Rose Brae DocksIndustrial
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.