Dissused Railway Line Adjoining Royal British Legion Club
SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
Dissused Railway Line Adjoining Royal British Legion Club is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Keynsham, Bath and North East Somerset. It received special (hazardous), industrial, household and inert waste between 1982 and 1984, covering about 0.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD09542, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09542 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Dissused Railway Line Adjoining Royal British Legion Club |
| Address | Staunton Lane, Whitchurch |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | The Whitchurch and Pensford Royal British Legion Club |
| Licence issued | 9 March 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 January 1984 |
| First waste input | 9 March 1982 |
| Last waste input | 30 January 1984 |
| Area | 0.48 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 361400, 167700 |
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
- Former Railway Cutting Near Dene RoadInert
- Furthermead FarmIndustrialInert
- Furthermead FarmSpecialInert
- Further Mead FarmHouseholdCommercialInert
- Norton Malreward TipIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land at rear of 62-66 Sturminster RoadIndustrialInert
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.