Measham Landfill Site
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Measham Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. It received household and commercial waste between 1963 and 1971, covering about 1.29 hectares. Reference EAHLD23615, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23615 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Measham Landfill Site |
| Address | Old Canal, Near Burton Road, Measham, Leicestershire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 January 1963 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1971 |
| Area | 1.29 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 432600, 312200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Canal TipWaste types not recorded
- Oakthorpe Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Donisthorpe Landfill Site C - Canal TipLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
- Measham Red Bank BrickworksIndustrialInert
- Church Street Refuse TipWaste types not recorded
- Acresford QuarryIndustrialCommercialInert
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.