Broadgate Meadow car park
Grasmere
This page does not say whether there is space today. It says when the people before you arrived, from the National Park Authority’s own ticket data, and it prints only what a source publishes: no directory price, no guessed operator, no unverified bus time.
At a glance
When people arrive
24,085 tickets were bought at the machine between August 2024 and March 2026 , and 20,273 RingGo sessions were started between April 2024 and March 2026. Read together, hour by hour, they say when the people before you arrived.
The busiest hour is 11:00. About a tenth of tickets (11%) are bought before 10:00, and the running total passes half in the 11:00 hour. 3% are bought before 09:00, the 11th-largest share of the 19 car parks in the release.
The same curve, in the two months that bracket the year. August 2025: 3,407 transactions, busiest hour 11:00; January 2026: 1,296 transactions, busiest hour 11:00.
Raw data: Lake District National Park Authority, FOI/2026.500. The aggregation by hour and by month is ours, not the Authority’s: it declined to produce an hour-of-day report and disclosed the transactions instead. Compiled 11 September 2026. A transaction is a paid ticket or a phone session, not a car and not a visitor: permit holders and anyone who did not pay are not in it, so every count is a floor.
The shape of the year
About 27,500 paid transactions a year, averaged over 2023-24 and 2024-25 — the 7th largest of the 20 car parks in the release. August runs 3.3 times January. The busiest month is August and the quietest is January.
Left out of every figure above: Jan-Mar 2026 is RingGo-only, a payment-channel subset. Excluded from every figure. Hawkshead May 2025, and Cow Bridge before Mar 2024, are unexplained in the source and are excluded from comparisons.
Source: Lake District National Park Authority, FOI/2026.486, paid transactions by car park and month. Received 22 July 2026.
Getting here by bus
- 555 — Grasmere, outside Village Hall, 47 m from the car park
- 599 — Grasmere, outside Village Hall, 47 m from the car park
| Service | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| 555 towards Ambleside | 21:53 | 21:53 | — |
| 555 towards Kendal | 23:01 | 23:01 | 19:30 |
| 555 towards Windermere | 20:53 | 20:53 | 20:00 |
| 599 towards Bowness on Windermere | 19:15 | 19:15 | 19:15 |
Last departures checked against the timetable by Lee on 12 September 2026. Timetables change; the live pilot at /buses/ has the day’s departures where a service is covered.
Walks from here
- Castle How & Lang How - Birketts — 10.9 km, 445 m of ascent, starts 0.5 km from the car park
- Grasmere to Easdale Tarn — 9.5 km, 237 m of ascent, starts 0.5 km from the car park
- Grasmere lake circuit — 5.7 km, 95 m of ascent, starts 0.5 km from the car park
- Helm Crag & Far Easedale — 15.9 km, 850 m of ascent, starts 0.5 km from the car park
- Helm Crag, Gibson Knott, Calf Crag, Steel Fell and Tarn Crag — 20.8 km, 910 m of ascent, starts 0.5 km from the car park
- Stone Arthur from Grasmere — 6.8 km, 516 m of ascent, starts 0.5 km from the car park
- West of Grasmere — 15.4 km, 806 m of ascent, starts 0.5 km from the car park
Walks in our route library that start within two kilometres of this car park, from the same join that gives each route its crowding note.
What this page does not say
- Whether the car park has space right now. The data is when tickets were bought, in the past; it cannot say what is happening today.
- A postcode. None is held for any of our parking pins, and none is invented.
- An operator, a price, a capacity or a bus time that a published source does not state. A panel that is missing here is missing because nothing sourced could be put in it.
Every figure on this page is regenerated from the committed data and checked, number by number, against it on every push. Corrections: lee@hikes.guide. See also the parking map and the two kinds of Lake District car park.