Landfill Check

Bank End Quarry

IndustrialInert

Bank End Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Egremont, Cumberland. It received industrial and inert waste between 1979 and 1984, covering about 0.87 hectares. Reference EAHLD07753, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD07753
Site nameBank End Quarry
AddressBigrigg, Cumbria
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderAlfred Parker
Licence issued24 January 1981
Licence surrendered28 February 1984
First waste input31 August 1979
Last waste input31 January 1984
Area0.87 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthern NW
Grid reference299200, 512400

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

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.