Landfill Check

Peel Place Quarry

Waste types not recorded

Peel Place Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Egremont, Cumberland. It received waste of unrecorded type from 1990, covering about 1.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD35551, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35551
Site namePeel Place Quarry
AddressHolmrook, Cumbria
Site operatorWatsons Peel Place Sand & Gravel
Licence holderWatsons Peel Place Sand & Gravel
Licence issued2 November 1990
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area1.4 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaNorth
Grid reference306800, 501300

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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.