Coalpit Lane
IndustrialInert
Coalpit Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Midsomer Norton, Bath and North East Somerset. It received industrial and inert waste between 1978 and 1985, covering about 0.39 hectares. Reference EAHLD08616, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08616 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Coalpit Lane |
| Address | Emborough, Binegar and Chilcompton |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | G D Thorner Limited |
| Licence issued | 10 August 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 16 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 June 1978 |
| Last waste input | 1 October 1985 |
| Area | 0.39 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 362800, 151000 |
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
- Disused Railway CutttingIndustrialInert
- Old DownIndustrialInert
- Rear of The MaplesIndustrialInert
- Railway CuttingIndustrialInert
- Gurney Slade Pumping stationIndustrialInert
- Moore WoodWaste types not recorded
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.