Florence No.1 Mine
IndustrialInert
Florence No.1 Mine is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Egremont, Cumberland. It received industrial and inert waste between 1977 and 2000, covering about 4.1 hectares. Reference EAHLD07953, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07953 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Florence No.1 Mine |
| Address | Scurgill Terrace, Carleton, Egremont, Cumbria |
| Site operator | Alco Waste Management Limited |
| Licence holder | Alco Transport Servicest Limited |
| Licence issued | 26 April 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 6 April 2000 |
| Area | 4.1 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern NW |
| Grid reference | 301900, 509900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- M Fleming and T CoulthardSpecial
- Field Nos 4031 3323 and 4527SpecialInert
- Disused Railway CuttingsInert
- 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.