East Bower
Inert
East Bower is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bridgwater, Somerset. It received inert waste between 1992 and 1994, covering about 1.01 hectares. Reference EAHLD08600, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08600 |
|---|---|
| Site name | East Bower |
| Address | Bridgwater |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | S Roberts and Son (Bridgwater) Limited |
| Licence issued | 5 June 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 30 June 1992 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1994 |
| Area | 1.01 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 332300, 136900 |
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
- Site Near M5 Westonzoyland RoadInert
- Pond at Westonzoyland RoadInert
- Bath RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Dunwear Landfill SiteIndustrial
- Bristol RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Haul WasteIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.