Disused Canal and Railway Cutting at Dunkerton
IndustrialCommercialInert
Disused Canal and Railway Cutting at Dunkerton is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Radstock, Bath and North East Somerset. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1981 and 1991, covering about 1.52 hectares. Reference EAHLD09122, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09122 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Canal and Railway Cutting at Dunkerton |
| Address | Dunkerton, Bath |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | D J Horwood Limited |
| Licence issued | 13 October 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 November 1992 |
| First waste input | 13 October 1981 |
| Last waste input | 10 November 1991 |
| Area | 1.52 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 371300, 159600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Combe Hay LaneWaste types not recorded
- Dunkerton Railway CuttingInert
- Old Quarry at Fosse FarmInert
- Disused Railway Cutting (off Bath Road)Waste types not recorded
- Old quarry adjoining Ashgrove FarmIndustrialInert
- Fullers Earth TipIndustrialInert
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.