Flusco Quarry
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Flusco Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Penrith, Westmorland and Furness. It received industrial and commercial waste from 1971, covering about 10.25 hectares. Reference EAHLD31932, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD31932 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Flusco Quarry |
| Address | New Biggin, Stainton, Penrith, Cumbria |
| Site operator | Penrith Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 7 October 1971 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 10.25 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Northern NW |
| Grid reference | 346200, 529100 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Flusco Quarry 1SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Flusco Quarry Extension 1, 2 and 3SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Flusco LodgeWaste types not recorded
- Flusco Lodge QuarryIndustrialCommercialInert
- Baron Cross QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Greystoke Effluent Treatment WorksLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
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.