Landfill Check

Lower Easthams Farm

Inert

Lower Easthams Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Crewkerne, Somerset. It received inert waste between 1988 and 1989, covering about 1.01 hectares. Reference EAHLD08531, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD08531
Site nameLower Easthams Farm
AddressCrewkerne, Somerset
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderK A M Colonel
Licence issued24 June 1988
Licence surrendered13 March 1993
First waste input1 July 1988
Last waste input25 October 1989
Area1.01 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth Wessex SW
Grid reference345500, 110400

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.

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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.