Old Quarry
Inert
Old Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bath, Bath and North East Somerset. It received inert waste between 1974 and 1978, covering about 0.13 hectares. Reference EAHLD09078, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09078 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Quarry |
| Address | Land Adjacent to 1 Beechwood Road, Coombe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Avon |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Ernest Ireland - Bath Waste Disposal Services Limited |
| Licence issued | 18 July 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1980 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1974 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Area | 0.13 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 375900, 162000 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- The Old Quarry, Rear of Combe RoadIndustrialInert
- Land adjoining Shaft RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Old Quarry adjoining Shaft RoadInert
- Lower Barrack FarmLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Honey's FarmWaste types not recorded
- South Stoke Phase 2 TipHouseholdCommercialInert
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.