Glenfield Brick and Tile Works
Industrial
Glenfield Brick and Tile Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leicester, City of Leicester. It received industrial waste from 1959, covering about 2.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD28252, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28252 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Glenfield Brick and Tile Works |
| Address | Glenfield Brick and Tile Works, Mill Lane, Glenfield, Leicestershire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1959 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.12 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 452900, 305900 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Barrows Lane, GlenfieldWaste types not recorded
- M1 WideningInert
- Sacheverall Way, Groby RoadWaste types not recorded
- Cowpen SpinneyHouseholdCommercialInert
- Centurion Court, Station Road, RatbyInert
- Brookfield High School, GrobyWaste 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.