Landfill Check

Off Watery Gate Lane

Household

Off Watery Gate Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Earl Shilton, Leicestershire. It received household waste between 1962 and 1971, covering about 1.44 hectares. Reference EAHLD22604, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD22604
Site nameOff Watery Gate Lane
AddressOff Watery Gate Lane, Thurlaston, Blaby
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderJelson Limited
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 March 1962
Last waste input1 March 1971
Area1.44 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference450000, 297100

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.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.