Dearham Bridge
Household
Dearham Bridge is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Maryport, Cumberland. It received household waste between 1973 and 1978, covering about 1.61 hectares. Reference EAHLD07784, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07784 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Dearham Bridge |
| Address | Dearham, Maryport, Cumbria |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cumbria County Council |
| Licence issued | 25 February 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1973 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Area | 1.61 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern NW |
| Grid reference | 307200, 537300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Dearham Bridge TipCommercial
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.