Wigston Landfill, off Magna Road
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Wigston Landfill, off Magna Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leicester, City of Leicester. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1947 and 1991, covering about 6.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD22513, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD22513 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wigston Landfill, off Magna Road |
| Address | Oadby and Wigston, Leicestershire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Leicestershire County Council |
| Licence issued | 5 July 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 15 January 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1947 |
| Last waste input | 15 January 1991 |
| Area | 6.42 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 459700, 297900 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Council Refuse TipIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Magna Road, WigstonIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Magna Road, WigstonInert
- Wigston LandfillIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Wigston Urban District CouncilLiquid / sludge
- Kilby Bridge LockWaste 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.