Stockwood Lane
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Stockwood Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Keynsham, Bath and North East Somerset. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1954 and 1978, covering about 15.76 hectares. Reference EAHLD09541, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09541 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Stockwood Lane |
| Address | Bristol, Avon |
| Site operator | Bristol Corporation |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1954 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Area | 15.76 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 362900, 169200 |
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.
- 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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land North of Hicks Gate FarmInert
- Rivevy QuarryInert
- Fox's HanhamWaste types not recorded
- River QuarryInert
- West Town RoadWaste types not recorded
- Land at rear of 62-66 Sturminster RoadIndustrialInert
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.