Croft Landfill, Croft, Blaby
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Croft Landfill, Croft, Blaby is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Earl Shilton, Leicestershire. It received industrial and household waste between 1937 and 1989, covering about 9.8 hectares. Reference EAHLD28348, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28348 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Croft Landfill, Croft, Blaby |
| Address | Croft Landfill, Croft, Blaby, Leicestershire |
| Site operator | Blaby Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | ECC Quarries Limited |
| Licence issued | 27 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 2 November 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1937 |
| Last waste input | 30 April 1989 |
| Area | 9.8 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 451800, 296200 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
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- Langham Bridge FarmIndustrialInert
- Cheney End, HuncoteIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Forest Road Leisure CentreHouseholdCommercialInert
- Huncote Quarry / Blaby Rural District Council TipSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Blaby Rural District Council TipWaste 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.