The Wilderness
Inert
The Wilderness is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Keynsham, Bath and North East Somerset. It received inert waste until 1982, covering about 0.57 hectares. Reference EAHLD34009, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD34009 |
|---|---|
| Site name | The Wilderness |
| Address | Court Frm Road, Longwell Green |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | 1 April 1982 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.57 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 365400, 170500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- River QuarryInert
- Somerdale Landfill SiteIndustrialInert
- Old Tramway Adjoining Keynsham RoadInert
- Rivevy QuarryInert
- Old QuarryInert
- Henly's ( Bristol ) LimitedWaste types not recorded
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.