Whiscombe Hill Landfill Site
HouseholdInert
Whiscombe Hill Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Somerton, Somerset. It received household and inert waste from 1988, covering about 0.22 hectares. Reference EAHLD09479, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09479 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Whiscombe Hill Landfill Site |
| Address | Somertonfield Road, Somerton, Somerset |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Quik Skips Limited |
| Licence issued | 11 August 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.22 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 346500, 129400 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Whiscombe Hill Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- MelburyWaste types not recorded
- Badgers CrossLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.