Eggborough

Eggborough is a village in North Yorkshire, near the border with West Yorkshire. The village is situated at the intersection of the A19 and the A645, approximately 7 miles East of Pontefract and 7 miles South West of Selby.

The village is the site of a coal powered power station, built in the 1960s and owned by British Energy. Its 4 turbines can produce a total combined output of 1960 MWs.

Eggborough Power Station is one of three power stations (Ferrybridge, Eggborough, DRAX) which extend in a line about 4 miles apart from each other to the North of the M62 motorway. On a good day, incidentally, all three of these power stations can be seen from Stoodley Pike, a hill no less than 67 miles from Eggborough, in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.

There also used to be a fourth power station to the South of the M62, at Thorpe Marsh, which I think is now closed.