Historic landfill sites in Radstock, Bath and North East Somerset
The Environment Agency records 35 historic landfill sites in and around Radstock, Bath and North East Somerset. covering roughly 36 hectares in total. The largest is Asham Wood at 3.42 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Radstock (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asham Wood | 3.42 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Dark Lane | 3.16 ha | 1976 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Land West Of existing Poultry Houses | 2.84 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Adjacent Holwell Farm | 2.49 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Page House Farm Landfill Site | 2.43 ha | — | Inert |
| Combe Hay Lane | 2.34 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Woodborough | 1.88 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Vobster Quarry | 1.6 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Disused Canal and Railway Cutting at Dunkerton | 1.52 ha | 1991 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Dunkerton Railway Cutting | 1.31 ha | — | Inert |
| Page House Farm A | 1.17 ha | 1989 | IndustrialInert |
| Peasdown St. John Cricket Club | 1.04 ha | 1986 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Near Concrete Works Area C | 1.02 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Vobster Hill | 0.99 ha | 1987 | IndustrialInert |
| Land at Coleford Area B | 0.99 ha | 1982 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| South Stock Hill | 0.79 ha | — | Industrial |
| Littleton Lane | 0.73 ha | 1983 | IndustrialInert |
| Land Adjacent To Whitebrook Lane | 0.71 ha | 1992 | Inert |
| Page House Farm B | 0.71 ha | 1989 | IndustrialInert |
| Land at Wick Lane | 0.61 ha | 1992 | HouseholdInert |
| Newbury | 0.61 ha | 1990 | IndustrialInert |
| Old Foxcote Quarry | 0.57 ha | 1988 | IndustrialInert |
| Land Adjacent to Vobster Quarry | 0.51 ha | 1988 | IndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Maggs Wood | 0.5 ha | 1970 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Radford Disposal Tip | 0.42 ha | 1972 | Commercial |
| Makintosh Batch | 0.37 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Old quarry adjoining Ashgrove Farm | 0.33 ha | 1983 | IndustrialInert |
| Kingmans Farm | 0.29 ha | 1987 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Splott Farm | 0.23 ha | 1980 | Inert |
| Vobster Quarry Phase 2 | 0.2 ha | 1978 | IndustrialInert |
| Newbury Concrete Works | 0.17 ha | 1985 | IndustrialInert |
| Faulkland | 0.15 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| South Stock Hill | 0.07 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| South Stock Hill | 0.06 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Canal At Coleford | 0.05 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
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 Radstock?
- 35 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Radstock 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 Radstock?
- 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.