Higher Hopcott Quarry
Waste types not recorded
Higher Hopcott Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Minehead, Somerset. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1987 and 1992, covering about 0.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD09326, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09326 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Higher Hopcott Quarry |
| Address | Minehead, Somerset |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Minehead Sawmills |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1992 |
| Area | 0.42 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 296300, 145200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land West of Hawksworth RoadInert
- Brunel WayInert
- Land North of Vulcan RoadSpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Middlecombe Tip In The Parish Of MineheadIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Seafront ApproachIndustrialInert
- Hartcleeve KnowleWaste 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.