Distington Landfill
Special
Distington Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Workington, Cumberland. It received special (hazardous) waste from 1993, covering about 18.13 hectares. Reference EAHLD35626, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35626 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Distington Landfill |
| Address | Pitwood Road, Workington, Lillyhall, Cumbria |
| Site operator | Cumbria Waste Management Ltd |
| Licence holder | Cumbria Waste Management Ltd |
| Licence issued | 1 July 1993 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 18.13 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern |
| Grid reference | 302500, 524300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Distington InertWaste types not recorded
- Distington Slag BanksLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Lillyhall Landfill Phase 3Waste types not recorded
- Barfs QuarrySpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Distington TipIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.