Heading to The Lake District?

England: no right to sleep on access land, and honeypot car parks are heavily managed — but the pub and farm network here is one of the best in Britain.

What is on our map there

101 campsites and caravan sites and 93 motorhome service points (9 with drinking water) within about 28 km — from OpenStreetMap, honestly labelled as not yet verified. See them on the map →

Getting there

• From London - distance, time and the stops on the way
• From Manchester - distance, time and the stops on the way

Read before you park

• Wild camping in England and Wales — No, and the Dartmoor ruling everybody quotes does not change it. What the law actually gives you, why it exclu…
• Pub car parks — The most reliable legal overnight stop in the UK, because the landlord can simply say yes. How to ask, what th…
• Can I sleep in my motorhome in a car park? — It depends on the order attached to that car park, not on the signage you remember or what other vans are doin…

The bit nobody says

Wherever you are heading: arrive with a plan for the night rather than an intention to find somewhere. The places that stay open to campers are the ones where campers arranged it first — a phone call in the afternoon beats a search at 10pm, every time.