Fullers Earth Tip
IndustrialInert
Fullers Earth Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bath, Bath and North East Somerset. It received industrial and inert waste between 1978 and 1988, covering about 9.23 hectares. Reference EAHLD09084, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09084 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Fullers Earth Tip |
| Address | Roadstock Road, Combe Hay, Bath, Avon |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Bath Plant Hire Services Limited |
| Licence issued | 17 October 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 12 September 1988 |
| First waste input | 17 October 1978 |
| Last waste input | 12 September 1988 |
| Area | 9.23 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 373100, 161300 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Old Quarry at Fosse FarmInert
- Disused Railway Cutting (off Bath Road)Waste types not recorded
- Former Railway Cutting, Woodland FarmInert
- Old Railway Cutting At Woodland FarmInert
- Railway CuttingWaste types not recorded
- Rush HillWaste types not recorded
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.