Ellistown Landfill Site
IndustrialInert
Ellistown Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Coalville, Leicestershire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1978 and 2005, covering about 5.7 hectares. Reference EAHLD21680, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD21680 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ellistown Landfill Site |
| Address | Terrace Road, Ellistown, Coalville, Leicestershire |
| Site operator | Hepworth Building Products Limited |
| Licence holder | Hepworth Building Products Limited |
| Licence issued | 28 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 23 May 2005 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 5.7 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 443500, 310500 |
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
- Battram Landfill Site BIndustrialInert
- Battram Landfill Site AIndustrialInert
- Station Road Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Ibstock Brick Company Landfill Site BIndustrialInert
- Station Road Recreation GroundHouseholdCommercial
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.