Wrask Farm
IndustrialInert
Wrask Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Earl Shilton, Leicestershire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1940 and 1950, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD28274, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28274 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wrask Farm |
| Address | Wrask Farm, Desford Road, Newbold Verdon, Leicestershire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1940 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1950 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 445100, 303800 |
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
- Newbold Verdon Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Newbold Verdon Sawmills Landfill SiteInert
- Lindridge Hall Farm, DesfordWaste types not recorded
- Hunts Lane, East of CemeteryWaste types not recorded
- Cadeby QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Hunts Lane/Newbold Road, DesfordWaste 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.