Willesley Lane Quarry
Industrial
Willesley Lane Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swadlincote, Derbyshire. It received industrial waste between 1978 and 1988, covering about 2.03 hectares. Reference EAHLD28157, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28157 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Willesley Lane Quarry |
| Address | Willesley Lane Quarry, Moira, Leicestershire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Willesley Quarries Limited |
| Licence issued | 27 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 13 December 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Last waste input | 26 October 1988 |
| Area | 2.03 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 432300, 315500 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Sweethill Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Bramborough Farm Landfill SiteIndustrialInert
- Moira Pottery Landfill SiteIndustrialInert
- Church Street Refuse TipWaste types not recorded
- Donisthorpe Landfill Site C - Canal TipLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
- Haywoods SiteCommercial
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.