York Gardens
SpecialIndustrialHousehold
York Gardens is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Carlisle, Cumberland. It received special (hazardous), industrial and household waste on dates not recorded, covering about 6.68 hectares. Reference EAHLD35884, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35884 |
|---|---|
| Site name | York Gardens |
| Address | Currock, Carlisle |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 6.68 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Cumbria and Lancashire |
| Grid reference | 340930, 554250 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Gillford ParkInert
- Currock RoadWaste types not recorded
- Blackwell BrickworksHousehold
- St Ninians Road Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Redundant GasholderIndustrialInert
- Part of Field No.7800CommercialInert
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.