Sparkford Refuse Tip
Commercial
Sparkford Refuse Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Castle Cary, Somerset. It received commercial waste between 1966 and 1971, covering about 0.82 hectares. Reference EAHLD09560, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09560 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sparkford Refuse Tip |
| Address | Wincanton, Somerset |
| Site operator | Wincanton Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 15 November 1966 |
| Last waste input | 3 August 1971 |
| Area | 0.82 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 360400, 125300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Camel Hill QuarryIndustrialInert
- Land Adjacent to Hazlegrove ParkHouseholdInert
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.