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Historic landfill sites in Midsomer Norton, Bath and North East Somerset

The Environment Agency records 42 historic landfill sites in and around Midsomer Norton, Bath and North East Somerset. covering roughly 33 hectares in total. The largest is Stowey Quarry Landfill Site at 8.12 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Stowey Quarry Landfill Site8.12 ha—Inert
Waterside Tip2.52 ha1971IndustrialCommercial
Disused Railway Cutting1.92 ha1982HouseholdInert
Land Near Ham Gardens1.79 ha1979SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
Tunnel Lane1.69 ha1978IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Land to the north of Bungays Hilll Farm1.33 ha1992IndustrialInert
Cooks Wood Quarry, West Side1.09 ha1990HouseholdInert
Old Railway Cutting1.08 ha1987SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
Sutton Hill0.98 ha1971Commercial
Old Railway Station Platform0.88 ha1982IndustrialInert
Former Quarry Site at Northend Farm0.84 ha—Inert
Railway Cutting0.8 ha1987IndustrialInert
Phase 2 Landfilling At Northend Farm0.78 ha1986Inert
Disused Railway Cutting0.76 ha—Inert
Killings Knapp0.65 ha1977IndustrialInert
Land Sout East of Old Mills0.64 ha—Inert
Disused Railway Cuttting0.6 ha1985IndustrialInert
Rear of The Maples0.6 ha1987IndustrialInert
Marsh Lane Landfill Site0.55 ha—IndustrialInert
Purnell and Sons Limited0.46 ha1982IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Tillay Farm0.45 ha1979Inert
Land Near Pillsbridge Cottages0.44 ha1992Inert
Disused Railway Cutting0.41 ha—Waste types not recorded
Coalpit Lane0.39 ha1985IndustrialInert
Disused Railway Cutting0.35 ha1985IndustrialInert
Disused Quarry0.29 ha1988HouseholdCommercialInert
Edford Works0.27 ha1986IndustrialInert
Land South of Long Barnaby0.24 ha—Inert
Old Down0.21 ha1980IndustrialInert
Goldenves0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Purnell and Sons Limited0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Phase 2 Landfilling at Northend Farm0.16 ha1986Inert
Moore Wood0.14 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land Adjoining Station House0.14 ha1986Inert
Killous Knapp0.14 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land Adjoining Warwick Arms0.13 ha1985IndustrialInert
Penny Lane0.13 ha1982IndustrialInert
Phase 2 Landfilling at Northend Farm0.08 ha1986Inert
Moor Wood0.03 ha1974HouseholdCommercial
Ston Easton Park0.02 ha1989IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Land at Avalon0.02 ha1981IndustrialHouseholdInert
Two disused mine shafts0.02 ha1981Inert

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 Midsomer Norton?
42 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Midsomer Norton 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 Midsomer Norton?
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.

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