Wigton Bypass
Inert
Wigton Bypass is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wigton, Cumberland. It received inert waste between 1992 and 1993, covering about 2.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD07830, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07830 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wigton Bypass |
| Address | Longhead Farm, Wigton, Cumbria |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Alfred McAlpine Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 22 July 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 12 August 1992 |
| Last waste input | 30 April 1993 |
| Area | 2.62 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern NW |
| Grid reference | 324500, 548500 |
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
- Osborne FarmInert
- Hillside FarmInert
- Oulton TipWaste types not recorded
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.