Landfill Check

Old Quarry

Inert

Old Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Keynsham, Bath and North East Somerset. It received inert waste in 1982, covering about 0.34 hectares. Reference EAHLD09127, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD09127
Site nameOld Quarry
AddressKeynsham, Bristol
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderWimpey Construction Limited
Licence issued26 January 1982
Licence surrendered9 November 1992
First waste input26 January 1982
Last waste input18 May 1982
Area0.34 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth Wessex SW
Grid reference366200, 169200

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.