Spike Island (Halton)

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Spike Island, Halton Borough, Widnes, England, a birthplace of the British chemical industry, is a reclaimed toxic waste site. The island is in the Mersey Estuary, a Ramsar Convention site. It is at the center of the Mersey Forest, one of Britain's Community Forests.

Its maze of abandoned chemical factories, rail lines, canal and industrial dockage, and industrial pollution, which had declined into a rust belt toxic wilderness, was reclaimed as woodland, wetlands and green space, 1975-1982. A surviving warehouse is now the home of the Catalyst Museum[1]

Spike Island was the site of a legendary outdoor concert by the Manchester group The Stone Roses in May, 1990.