Cornish Farm
Inert
Cornish Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Taunton, Somerset. It received inert waste between 1991 and 1992, covering about 0.17 hectares. Reference EAHLD08603, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08603 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cornish Farm |
| Address | Haygrass Lane, Taunton |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | S Roberts and Son (Bridgwater) Limited |
| Licence issued | 17 July 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 April 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 January 1991 |
| Last waste input | 4 November 1992 |
| Area | 0.17 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 323600, 122000 |
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
- Haydon Farm WestSpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
- M5 Site Haydon FarmInert
- Haydon Farm EstateIndustrialInert
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.