Drigg is a village on the coast of the Irish Sea in the Cumberland district of the county of Cumbria, England.

[2] Since 1996, 1,396 hectares (3,450 acres) of the Drigg coast has been a designated Special Area of Conservation.

[3] The small bar-built estuary is described as "one of the most natural and least developed in the UK, with little industry and few artificial coastal defence structures".

[4] A 2007 survey found Drigg beach to be stoney at high tide from Carl Crag to Kokoarrah Scar and backed by sand dunes.

[5] Since 2013 the coastline at Drigg has been designated a Marine Conservation Zone, as part of the Cumbria Coast.

[6] Kokoarrah rocky scar inter-tidal zone supports a variety of marine organisms.

The site was chosen because the area was sparsely populated and to minimise the risk of German bombing.

Prior to the Local Government Act 1894 Carleton was a constablewick in the ancient parish of Drigg.

This was opened in 1959 by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority,[23] covers about 270 acres (110 ha), and holds about one million cubic metres of radioactive waste, although historic disposal records are incomplete.