Dunkerton Railway Cutting
Inert
Dunkerton Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Radstock, Bath and North East Somerset. It received inert waste between 1978 and 1981, covering about 1.31 hectares. Reference EAHLD09572, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09572 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Dunkerton Railway Cutting |
| Address | Withyditch |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Bath Waste Disposal Services Limited |
| Licence issued | 19 September 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 February 1981 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.31 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 369800, 158700 |
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
- Land at Wick LaneHouseholdInert
- Old quarry adjoining Ashgrove FarmIndustrialInert
- Peasdown St. John Cricket ClubSpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Land Adjacent To Whitebrook LaneInert
- Splott FarmInert
- Disused Canal and Railway Cutting at DunkertonIndustrialCommercialInert
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.