The artificial bulk of the Risley Landfill Site is very close to this cache, though it is apparently in the process of being capped and returned to nature, so the smells which once plagued Culcheth folk will soon be a thing of the past. It was a close run thing... plans to extend the landfill site were only finally rejected in 2008. Who knows what this area will look like in ten or twenty years from now...
Things can change very quickly once a site is left to return to nature. Many parks and wild areas across the northwest are built on former industrial land. South of the landfill site was the old Royal Ordnance Factory at Risley Moss, which was built on low lying heath and mossland during the Second World War as a munitions filling site. The Factory enjoyed a cold-war heyday as a top secret headquarters for the Directorate for Atomic Energy Production, who were in charge of creating the UK's first nuclear weapons, before being sold off in the sixties as development land on which the new town of Birchwood was created. You might not think it, but the rail link to this huge Factory complex passed 100m west of the cache site up until the 1960s - you'll cross it as you head away towards the next cache. Though there is no evidence on the ground the route of the branch line shows up clearly on aerial photographs.
This geocache once formed part of the Edge o' t' Moss series, which has been discontinued. The remaining caches can still be incorporated into some pleasant wanders around Culcheth village.
Well done to city69 on FTF.