Land Adjacent to BR Railway Embankment
SpecialHouseholdInert
Land Adjacent to BR Railway Embankment is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bristol, City of Bristol. It received special (hazardous), household and inert waste between 1991 and 1994, covering about 8.78 hectares. Reference EAHLD09194, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09194 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land Adjacent to BR Railway Embankment |
| Address | Long Ashton |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Terry Adams Limited |
| Licence issued | 18 September 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 February 1994 |
| First waste input | 18 February 1991 |
| Last waste input | 10 February 1994 |
| Area | 8.78 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 355600, 169700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land Adjoining The Railway EmbankmentSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Land Adjoining Yew Tree FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Yew Tree FarmInert
- Land to the Rear of Yew Tree FarmInert
- Castle FarmSpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
- Yanley LaneSpecialIndustrialInert
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.