Landfill Check

Camel Hill Quarry

IndustrialInert

Camel Hill Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Castle Cary, Somerset. It received industrial and inert waste between 1989 and 1992, covering about 1.35 hectares. Reference EAHLD08575, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD08575
Site nameCamel Hill Quarry
AddressQueen Camel, Sparkford
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderL A Moore Limited
Licence issued15 November 1989
Licence surrendered18 February 1993
First waste input29 November 1989
Last waste input5 June 1992
Area1.35 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth Wessex SW
Grid reference359600, 125500

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.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.