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Old Quarry, Ozleworth Tower

IndustrialInert

Old Quarry, Ozleworth Tower is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1985 and 1988, covering about 0.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD27918, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD27918
Site nameOld Quarry, Ozleworth Tower
AddressGoose Green, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderJ R Waste Limited
Licence issued8 July 1985
Licence surrendered1 April 1993
First waste input8 August 1985
Last waste input31 December 1988
Area0.12 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth Wessex SW
Grid reference379000, 194500

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Industrial:
factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

  • Quarry
    Waste types not recorded

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.