Brathay Hill Farm
Inert
Brathay Hill Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cockermouth, Cumberland. It received inert waste between 1991 and 1993, covering about 1.01 hectares. Reference EAHLD07936, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07936 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Brathay Hill Farm |
| Address | Dubwath, Near Keswick, Cumbria |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cumbria County Council |
| Licence issued | 22 March 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 14 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 June 1991 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1993 |
| Area | 1.01 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern NW |
| Grid reference | 319300, 531200 |
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.
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.