Landfill Check

North Down

Waste types not recorded

North Down is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Taunton, Somerset. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1980 and 1993, covering about 0.24 hectares. Reference EAHLD09370, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD09370
Site nameNorth Down
AddressOtterford
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderSherring and Sons
Licence issued20 November 1980
Licence surrendered12 February 1993
First waste input20 November 1980
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.24 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth Wessex SW
Grid reference322400, 116000

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.