Pit off The Drove
Inert
Pit off The Drove is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bridgwater, Somerset. It received inert waste between 1975 and 1977, covering about 0.72 hectares. Reference EAHLD09402, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09402 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Pit off The Drove |
| Address | Bridgewater, Somerset |
| Site operator | S Roberts and Son (Bridgwater) Limited |
| Licence holder | S Roberts and Son (Bridgwater) Limited |
| Licence issued | 27 November 1975 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1975 |
| Last waste input | 14 June 1977 |
| Area | 0.72 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 330500, 137900 |
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
- Land at Bristol RoadIndustrialInert
- Bristol RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- The LeggarWaste types not recorded
- Bath RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Saltlands Waste Disposal SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land Off Saltlands AvenueSpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.