Buckland Hill, Wellclose Farm
Inert
Buckland Hill, Wellclose Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wellington, Somerset. It received inert waste between 1989 and 1990, covering about 0.94 hectares. Reference EAHLD09703, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09703 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Buckland Hill, Wellclose Farm |
| Address | Blackmoor, West Buckland |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | S Roberts and Son (Bridgwater) Limited |
| Licence issued | 3 July 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 30 June 1989 |
| Last waste input | 10 July 1990 |
| Area | 0.94 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 317300, 117600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Huntspath Manor FarmInert
- Landshire LaneIndustrialInert
- Wellclose FarmInert
- Ford StreetSpecialInert
- Leigh HillInert
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.