Sellafield
Sellafield is a railway stop in St. Bridget Beckermet, Cumberland, England. Sellafield is situated nearby to the building Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant, as well as near the village Calder Bridge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sellafield railway station and Sellafield.
Sellafield railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sellafield is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness. It serves Sellafield, in Cumbria, England; it is situated 35 miles north-west of Barrow-in-Furness.
Sellafield
Photo: Simon Ledingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning. Sellafield is situated 1,900 feet east of Sellafield.
Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant
Building
Photo: Raymond Knapman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant, or THORP, is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield in Cumbria, England. THORP is owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and operated by Sellafield Ltd, the site licensee. Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant is situated 2,000 feet east of Sellafield.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Seascale and Calder Bridge.
Seascale
Photo: Martinvl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Seascale is a village and civil parish on the Irish Sea coast of Cumbria, England, historically within Cumberland. The parish had a population of 1,754 in 2011, barely decreasing by 0.4% in 2021.
Calder Bridge
Village
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Calder Bridge is a small village in Cumbria in England. It is located between the hamlets of Gosforth and Beckermet and lies on the River Calder. It is around 1 mile northeast from the Sellafield nuclear plant—Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station was the world's first major nuclear power station when it opened in 1956. Calder Bridge is situated 2 miles northeast of Sellafield.
Blackbeck
Hamlet
Photo: Nigel Monckton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blackbeck is a small village in Cumbria, England. It is northeast of Beckermet and Sellafield, along the A595 road. It contains properties such as the Blackbeck Inn, Blackbeck Farm and Brow House. Blackbeck is situated 2½ miles north of Sellafield.
Sellafield
- Type: Railway stop
- Categories: transport stop and transportation
- Location: St. Bridget Beckermet, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.41654° or 54° 24′ 60″ northLongitude
-3.51025° or 3° 30′ 37″ westOpen location code
9C6RCF8Q+JVOpenStreetMap ID
node 8462678718OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stop_positionOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stop
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