The Old Quarry, Rear of Combe Road
IndustrialInert
The Old Quarry, Rear of Combe Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bath, Bath and North East Somerset. It received industrial and inert waste between 1979 and 1982, covering about 1.83 hectares. Reference EAHLD09088, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09088 |
|---|---|
| Site name | The Old Quarry, Rear of Combe Road |
| Address | Combe Down, Bath |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Bath Waste Disposal Services Limited |
| Licence issued | 26 February 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 12 September 1988 |
| First waste input | 26 February 1979 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Area | 1.83 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 375500, 162200 |
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
- Old QuarryInert
- Lower Barrack FarmLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Land adjoining Shaft RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Old Quarry adjoining Shaft RoadInert
- Bloomfield Road TipHousehold
- South Stoke Tipping SiteHouseholdInert
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.