Coat Railway Cutting
HouseholdInert
Coat Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near South Petherton, Somerset. It received household and inert waste between 1986 and 1992, covering about 1.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD08505, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08505 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Coat Railway Cutting |
| Address | Martock, Coat, Martock, Somerset |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr Hambridge |
| Licence issued | 7 August 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 21 October 1986 |
| Last waste input | 4 March 1992 |
| Area | 1.04 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 345400, 120700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Town Tree LaneWaste types not recorded
- Martock Old Sewage Treatment WorksSpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Bearley Bridge NorthInert
- HurstWaste types not recorded
- Bearley Bridge SouthIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.