Eggborough League. The village is the site of the 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. The power station was due to be closed in 2016, but won a reprieve as a back up generator of power until March 2017 and then again until March 2018. The owners are applying for permission to convert the power station to a gas-fired power plant. There was also a short lived biomass power station, ARBRE Power Station, built by the Kelda Group, owners of Yorkshire
Richard Drax Ireland. His great-uncle was the celebrated writer and playwright the 18th Lord Dunsany, and his maternal grandfather was General the Lord Weeks. His first wife ("divorced" 1997) was Zara Legge-Bourke, younger sister of the royal nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke, relations of the Earl of Dartmouth. Drax married his second wife; Eliza, daughter of Commander James Dugdale (related to David Cameron); Drax has remarried and has four children in total. At least six of his ancestors, including John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax and the 17th Lord Dunsany, were Members of Parliament for Dorset and Gloucestershire between the 1680s and 1880s. A cousin