Kirby Bellars Quarry, Station Lane, Asfordby, Melton Mowbray
IndustrialInert
Kirby Bellars Quarry, Station Lane, Asfordby, Melton Mowbray is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1967 and 1990, covering about 2.51 hectares. Reference EAHLD28140, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28140 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Kirby Bellars Quarry, Station Lane, Asfordby, Melton Mowbray |
| Address | Kirby Bellars Quarry, Station Lane, Asfordby, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire |
| Site operator | Acresford Sand and Gravel Company Limited |
| Licence holder | Jelson Limited |
| Licence issued | 13 September 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 May 1990 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1967 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 2.51 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 470900, 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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Kirby Bellars Quarry, Station Lane, Asfordby, Melton MowbrayIndustrialInert
- Land off Hoby RoadWaste types not recorded
- Land off Hoby Road, AshfordbyHouseholdCommercial
- Ashfordby FarmHouseholdInert
- Hoby Road, AshfordbyIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Off Leicester RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.