Landfill Check

Woolton Quarry (North)

Inert

Woolton Quarry (North) is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Prescot. It received inert waste between 1979 and 1983, covering about 1.78 hectares. Reference EAHLD16924, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD16924
Site nameWoolton Quarry (North)
AddressWoolton, Merseyside
Site operatorWimpey and Company
Licence holderWimpey and Company
Licence issued17 September 1979
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input17 September 1979
Last waste input31 December 1983
Area1.78 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSouth NW
Grid reference341900, 387000

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.