Eggborough
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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 seven miles east of Pontefract and seven 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 is now closed.
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