OS Field No 8444
Inert
OS Field No 8444 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Workington, Cumberland. It received inert waste between 1979 and 1980, covering about 1.31 hectares. Reference EAHLD07796, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07796 |
|---|---|
| Site name | OS Field No 8444 |
| Address | Siddick, Workington, Cumbria |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Border Engineering Contractors Limited |
| Licence issued | 20 February 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 May 1982 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1979 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Area | 1.31 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern NW |
| Grid reference | 299800, 530400 |
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
- Chapel Bank WorksIndustrialCommercialInert
- Workington Slag BankInert
- Derwent Howe SlagbankInert
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.