Coley's Hole
HouseholdCommercial
Coley's Hole is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Earl Shilton, Leicestershire. It received household and commercial waste between 1971 and 1974, covering about 0.59 hectares. Reference EAHLD28359, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28359 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Coley's Hole |
| Address | Sapcote Road, Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire |
| Site operator | Blaby Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1971 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1974 |
| Area | 0.59 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 449300, 294300 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Railway CuttingInert
- Carey Hill QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Off Church and Long Streets, Stoney StantonWaste types not recorded
- Clint Hill QuarryIndustrialInert
- Sapcote QuarryCommercialInert
- Calver Hill Quarry, Sapcote, BlabyIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.