Eggborough

Eggborough

infobox UK place
country = England
static_

static_image_caption = Eggborough village, with power station chimney visible in background
latitude = 53.704881
longitude = -1.145592
official_name = Eggborough
population =
shire_district = Selby
shire_county = North Yorkshire
region = Yorkshire and the Humber
constituency_westminster =
post_town = GOOLE
postcode_district = DN14
postcode_area = DN
dial_code =
os_grid_reference = SE565235

Eggborough is a village of 700 homes, in Selby district of North Yorkshire, England, close to the county borders with South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and the East Riding. The village is situated at the intersection of the A19 and the A645, approximately seven miles east of Pontefract and seven miles south-west of Selby. It is also located close to the M62.

The village is the site of a coal-fired Eggborough Power Station, built in the 1960s and now owned by British Energy. Its 4 turbines can produce a total combined output of 1960 MWe. There is also an ill-fated small woodburning power station, Arbre Power Station, built by Yorkshire Water, but funded by the taxpayer, in the late 1990s, which has never worked and now stands idle and rusting.

Close to Eggborough is the site of French-owned Saint Gobain Glass, Europe's leading producer of Float (Flat) Glass.

Although the village is situated within the boundaries of North Yorkshire, the postal address for Eggborough is "Eggborough, Near Goole, East Yorkshire". It has a DN (Doncaster, South Yorkshire) postcode and the STD telephone code is 01977 (Pontefract, West Yorkshire).


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