Land at Bailys
HouseholdCommercial
Land at Bailys is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Glastonbury, Somerset. It received household and commercial waste between 1950 and 1992, covering about 1.26 hectares. Reference EAHLD08452, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08452 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at Bailys |
| Address | The Beckery, Glastonbury, Somerset |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | A Baily and Company |
| Licence issued | 31 December 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1950 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1992 |
| Area | 1.26 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 348600, 138500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Field Adjoining Baily's FactoryIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Porchestal DroveIndustrialInert
- Porchestall DroveIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land at ParadiseIndustrialInert
- Land at CradlebridgeWaste types not recorded
- Dyehouse LaneIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.