Langhorn Quarry
IndustrialInert
Langhorn Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Egremont, Cumberland. It received industrial and inert waste between 1976 and 2002, covering about 1.74 hectares. Reference EAHLD07851, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07851 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Langhorn Quarry |
| Address | Bigrigg, Whitehaven, Cumbria |
| Site operator | Border Engineering |
| Licence holder | Border Engineering Contractors Limited |
| Licence issued | 2 July 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 3 January 2002 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1976 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.74 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern NW |
| Grid reference | 300300, 512600 |
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
- Old Mine WorkingsInert
- Bank End QuarryIndustrialInert
- Crossfield TipCommercial
- Montreal MineIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.