Central Electricity Generating Board
IndustrialInert
Central Electricity Generating Board is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness. It received industrial and inert waste from 1953, covering about 28.09 hectares. Reference EAHLD32050, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD32050 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Central Electricity Generating Board |
| Address | Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Central Electricity Generating Board |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1953 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 28.09 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Northern NW |
| Grid reference | 322500, 467800 |
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
- Roosecote Power StationLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Roosecote Power StationInert
- Land to the South West of Rampside RoadInert
- Salthouse PoolLiquid / sludgeInert
- Rampside Road NorthInert
- Part Field No 1554Inert
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.