Dimmer Landfill
Waste types not recorded
Dimmer Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Castle Cary, Somerset. It received waste of unrecorded type from 1976, covering about 27.34 hectares. Reference EAHLD35985, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35985 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Dimmer Landfill |
| Address | Dimmer Lane,Castle Cary,,Somerset |
| Site operator | Viridor Waste ( Somerset ) Ltd |
| Licence holder | Viridor Waste ( Somerset ) Ltd |
| Licence issued | 11 November 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 27.34 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Wessex |
| Grid reference | 361500, 131200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Lovington LandfillInert
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.