Castle Farm
SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
Castle Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bristol, City of Bristol. It received special (hazardous), industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1979 and 1987, covering about 2.26 hectares. Reference EAHLD09100, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09100 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Castle Farm |
| Address | Bridgewater Road, Long Ashton, Bristol, Avon |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | S and A Stone Limited |
| Licence issued | 18 December 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 19 May 1987 |
| First waste input | 18 December 1979 |
| Last waste input | 19 May 1987 |
| Area | 2.26 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 355700, 169200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land Adjoining Yew Tree FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land to the Rear of Yew Tree FarmInert
- Yew Tree FarmInert
- Yanley LaneSpecialIndustrialInert
- Land Adjoining The Railway EmbankmentSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Land Adjacent to BR Railway EmbankmentSpecialHouseholdInert
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.