Highbrooks Quarries
Inert
Highbrooks Quarries is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Somerton, Somerset. It received inert waste between 1980 and 1987, covering about 1.25 hectares. Reference EAHLD09481, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09481 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Highbrooks Quarries |
| Address | Watts Quarry Lane, Somerton, Somerset |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Post Office ETE |
| Licence issued | 12 November 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 15 March 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1980 |
| Last waste input | 22 June 1987 |
| Area | 1.25 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 348900, 126000 |
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
- Highbrooks QuarryInert
- Long Sutton Waste Disposal SiteIndustrialInert
- Badgers CrossLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Highbrooks RoadWaste types not recorded
- Catsgore RoadWaste types not recorded
- Badgers CrossLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.