Desford Brickworks
IndustrialInert
Desford Brickworks is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Coalville, Leicestershire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1992 and 2010, covering about 23.08 hectares. Reference EAHLD35730, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35730 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Desford Brickworks |
| Address | Heath Road, Coalville, Bagworth, Leicestershire |
| Site operator | Desford Brickworks |
| Licence holder | Desford Brickworks |
| Licence issued | 10 May 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 27 July 2010 |
| First waste input | 1 June 1992 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 23.08 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | East |
| Grid reference | 446490, 306713 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Merrylees RoadWaste types not recorded
- Lodge FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Thornton LaneWaste types not recorded
- Lindridge Hall Farm, DesfordWaste types not recorded
- Newbold Verdon Sawmills Landfill SiteInert
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.