Rayrigg Wood
IndustrialInert
Rayrigg Wood is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Windermere, Westmorland and Furness. It received industrial and inert waste between 1921 and 1989, covering about 0.14 hectares. Reference EAHLD07844, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07844 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rayrigg Wood |
| Address | Rayrigg Road, Windermere, Cumbria |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | G H Pattinson Limited |
| Licence issued | 14 December 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 15 April 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1921 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Area | 0.14 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern NW |
| Grid reference | 340400, 498200 |
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.
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.