Cricket Club Landfill Site
SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
Cricket Club Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Watchet, Somerset. It received special (hazardous), industrial, household and inert waste between 1990 and 2001, covering about 0.13 hectares. Reference EAHLD09810, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09810 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cricket Club Landfill Site |
| Address | Station Road, Stogumber, Somerset |
| Site operator | Stogumber Cricket Club |
| Licence holder | S D Sherring and Sons |
| Licence issued | 12 March 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 24 May 2001 |
| First waste input | 31 July 1990 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.13 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 310400, 136900 |
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.
- 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
- The Old QuarryInert
- Vellow QuarryWaste 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.