Flusco Lodge Quarry
IndustrialCommercialInert
Flusco Lodge Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Penrith, Westmorland and Furness. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste from 1992, covering about 4.92 hectares. Reference EAHLD07889, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07889 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Flusco Lodge Quarry |
| Address | Stainton, Penrith, Cumbria |
| Site operator | Cumbria County Council |
| Licence holder | Cumbria County Council |
| Licence issued | 27 April 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 April 1992 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 4.92 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern NW |
| Grid reference | 347300, 528100 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Baron Cross QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Flusco Quarry 1SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Flusco Quarry Extension 1, 2 and 3SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Flusco QuarryIndustrialCommercial
- Flusco LodgeWaste types not recorded
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.