Rockhouse Farm
HouseholdCommercialInert
Rockhouse Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Keynsham, Bath and North East Somerset. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1990 and 1993, covering about 0.06 hectares. Reference EAHLD09570, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09570 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rockhouse Farm |
| Address | Newpit Lane, Bitton, Bristol |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | M J Church Plant Hire Limited |
| Licence issued | 25 November 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 2 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Last waste input | 2 March 1993 |
| Area | 0.06 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 368600, 170800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Disused MineHouseholdCommercialInert
- Harvey LeazeIndustrialInert
- High StreetInert
- Land Adjoining Golden Valley LaneInert
- Golden Valley LaneInert
- Weston Court FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.