Hoby Road, Ashfordby
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Hoby Road, Ashfordby is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1972 and 1980, covering about 8.06 hectares. Reference EAHLD28138, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28138 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hoby Road, Ashfordby |
| Address | Hoby Road, Ashfordby, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire |
| Site operator | F Shelton and Sons Limited |
| Licence holder | F Shelton and Sons Limited |
| Licence issued | 27 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 January 1980 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1972 |
| Last waste input | 21 January 1980 |
| Area | 8.06 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 469200, 318500 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land off Hoby Road, AshfordbyHouseholdCommercial
- Land off Hoby RoadWaste types not recorded
- Off Washstones Lane, Frisby on the WreakeHouseholdCommercial
- Off Rotherby Lane, Frisby on the WreakeHouseholdCommercial
- Kirby Bellars Quarry, Station Lane, Asfordby, Melton MowbrayIndustrialInert
- Kirby Bellars Quarry, Station Lane, Asfordby, Melton MowbrayIndustrialInert
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.