Rear of The Maples
IndustrialInert
Rear of The Maples is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Midsomer Norton, Bath and North East Somerset. It received industrial and inert waste between 1977 and 1987, covering about 0.6 hectares. Reference EAHLD08446, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08446 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rear of The Maples |
| Address | IChilcompton, Radstock, Avon |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | W Freeman Esquire |
| Licence issued | 31 March 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 24 November 1987 |
| Area | 0.6 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 364000, 151400 |
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
- Railway CuttingIndustrialInert
- Disused Railway CuttingIndustrialInert
- Old DownIndustrialInert
- Disused Railway CuttingWaste types not recorded
- Disused Railway CutttingIndustrialInert
- Coalpit LaneIndustrialInert
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.