Fairthorns Inert Landfill Site
Waste types not recorded
Fairthorns Inert Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sedbergh, Westmorland and Furness. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1994 and 2015, covering about 1.21 hectares. Reference EAHLD35954, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35954 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Fairthorns Inert Landfill Site |
| Address | Fairthorns Lane, Killington, , Cumbria |
| Site operator | Cumbria County Council |
| Licence holder | Cumbria County Council |
| Licence issued | 28 April 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | 9 October 2015 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.21 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Cumbria and Lancashire |
| Grid reference | 358800, 492200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Roan EdgeSpecial
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.