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Historic landfill sites in Bristol, City of Bristol

The Environment Agency records 34 historic landfill sites in and around Bristol, City of Bristol. covering roughly 195 hectares in total. The largest is Saltmarsh Drive at 24.02 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Bristol (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Saltmarsh Drive24.02 ha1974HouseholdCommercial
Kingsweston18.12 ha—Inert
Netham Playing Fields14.98 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land Adjoining The Railway Embankment14.45 ha—SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
South Liberty Lane Brickworks13.85 ha—Waste types not recorded
Vale Lane13.75 ha—Household
Bedminster Down11.8 ha1978IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Land Adjacent to BR Railway Embankment8.78 ha1994SpecialHouseholdInert
Phase 3 Landfill Site At Ashton Vale8.57 ha1991IndustrialCommercialInert
St Philips Marsh Depot8.21 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hengrove Park7.93 ha—Waste types not recorded
Viridor Long Ashton7.5 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Kingsweston7.5 ha—Inert
Yanley Lane6.48 ha1988SpecialIndustrialInert
Land at Parsonage Farm and Phase 23.97 ha1988SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
Phase 2 Of Landfill Site At Parsonage Farm3.74 ha1991IndustrialCommercialInert
Hartcliffe Way2.83 ha—Household
Land Adjoining Yew Tree Farm2.71 ha1987IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Land Adjacent to Newtown2.59 ha—Inert
Castle Farm2.26 ha1987SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
South Liberty Lane2.15 ha—Waste types not recorded
Cala Trading Estate1.53 ha—Waste types not recorded
The Creek1.48 ha1977Inert
Limeburn Hill1.03 ha—Inert
Land to the Rear of Yew Tree Farm0.89 ha1986Inert
Yew Tree Farm0.88 ha—Inert
Land at Henleaze Road0.76 ha—Waste types not recorded
Former Barton Hill Gas Holder Site0.57 ha1986SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
Disused Railway Cutting To The North of Narroways Road0.55 ha1984IndustrialInert
Brixton Road0.44 ha1970Waste types not recorded
Clift House Tannery0.24 ha1991Inert
West Town Road0.21 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land at rear of 62-66 Sturminster Road0.15 ha1985IndustrialInert
Conham0.08 ha—Waste types not recorded

What this data does — and doesn't — cover

  • Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
  • Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
  • Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
  • Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.

EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Bristol?
34 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Bristol town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
How do I check a specific address in Bristol?
Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

Nearby areas

Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.