Landfill Check

Clifton Sawmills

Waste types not recorded

Clifton Sawmills is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Penrith, Westmorland and Furness. It received waste of unrecorded type from 1971, covering about 1.65 hectares. Reference EAHLD32011, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD32011
Site nameClifton Sawmills
AddressClifton, Appleby, Cumbria
Site operatorLowther and Crossdale
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input17 May 1971
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area1.65 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaNorthern NW
Grid reference353900, 525400

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

Boundary map

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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.