Landfill Check

Adjacent To Bow Farm

IndustrialInert

Adjacent To Bow Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Axbridge, Somerset. It received industrial and inert waste between 1919 and 1985, covering about 0.65 hectares. Reference EAHLD09095, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD09095
Site nameAdjacent To Bow Farm
AddressBanwell
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderM E R Hoddinot
Licence issued15 May 1979
Licence surrendered8 December 1992
First waste input31 December 1919
Last waste input31 December 1985
Area0.65 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth Wessex SW
Grid reference339800, 159800

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Industrial:
factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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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.