Landfill Check

Black Bull Farm

Waste types not recorded

Black Bull Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Grange-over-Sands, Westmorland and Furness. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1993 and 2022, covering about 0.49 hectares. Reference EAHLD36120, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD36120
Site nameBlack Bull Farm
AddressMillside,Witherslack,Cumbria
Site operatorIan Sisson and Robin Sisson
Licence holderIan Sisson and Robin Sisson
Licence issued6 December 1993
Licence surrendered21 August 2022
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.49 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCumbria and Lancashire
Grid reference344600, 484200

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

Boundary map

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.