Whitford Quarry
Inert
Whitford Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Taunton, Somerset. It received inert waste between 1986 and 1991, covering about 2.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD08605, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08605 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Whitford Quarry |
| Address | Whitford Hill, Corfe |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Stansell Builders |
| Licence issued | 6 November 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 August 1986 |
| Last waste input | 14 May 1991 |
| Area | 2.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 323900, 118000 |
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
- Hayne FarmWaste types not recorded
- Feltham FarmWaste types not recorded
- Land At Adcombe Hill Part of OS 7134 To The West Of Feltham FarmWaste types not recorded
- Adcombe HillIndustrialInert
- North DownWaste types not recorded
- North Down Disused QuarryIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.