Martock Old Sewage Treatment Works
SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
Martock Old Sewage Treatment Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near South Petherton, Somerset. It received special (hazardous), industrial, household and inert waste from 1993, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD09492, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09492 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Martock Old Sewage Treatment Works |
| Address | Yeovil |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wessex Water Plc |
| Licence issued | 31 October 1993 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 November 1993 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 345400, 119100 |
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.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- 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
- HurstWaste types not recorded
- Bearley Bridge NorthInert
- Bearley Bridge SouthIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Coat Railway CuttingHouseholdInert
- North Side Of A303 At Percombe HillInert
- Jovlers MillCommercial
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.