Disused Railway Cuttings
Inert
Disused Railway Cuttings is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Egremont, Cumberland. It received inert waste in 1991, covering about 1.01 hectares. Reference EAHLD07852, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07852 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Railway Cuttings |
| Address | Egremont Bypass, St Thomas's Cross, Egremont, Cumbria |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Alfred McAlpine Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 10 December 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 11 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 October 1991 |
| Last waste input | 31 October 1991 |
| Area | 1.01 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern NW |
| Grid reference | 301400, 510100 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Florence No.1 MineIndustrialInert
- M Fleming and T CoulthardSpecial
- Field Nos 4031 3323 and 4527SpecialInert
- Field No 4527 and parts of 3323 4216 4031 5214SpecialInert
- Field Nos 4031 3323 and 4527Inert
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.