Fields 878 and 880 (part)
Inert
Fields 878 and 880 (part) is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Penrith, Westmorland and Furness. It received inert waste from 1968, covering about 4.88 hectares. Reference EAHLD35303, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35303 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Fields 878 and 880 (part) |
| Address | Myersbeck, Penrith |
| Site operator | A McAlpine and Sons |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 15 February 1968 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 4.88 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Northern NW |
| Grid reference | 350200, 529700 |
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
- Skirsgill FarmInert
- Redhills QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.