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Threlkeld Old Station car park

Threlkeld

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

How you paypay by app only (no cash) (Lake District National Park car-parks directory, checked Aug 2026)
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Busiest monthSeptember
Quietest monthNovember

The shape of the year

About 608 paid transactions a year, averaged over 2023-24 and 2024-25 — the 20th largest of the 20 car parks in the release. August runs 2.3 times January. The busiest month is September and the quietest is November.

January: 34February: 32March: 54April: 70May: 72June: 52July: 51August: 78September: 87October: 49November: 25December: 31JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Paid transactions by month, averaged over the comparable years.

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.

Staying overnight

Overnight occupation of vehicles is not permitted. That is the published rule of the LDNPA, read from Lake District National Park Authority: Car parks on 5 August 2026.

Only a documented rule is printed here. Where an operator publishes nothing, this page says nothing, because absence of a prohibition is not permission. The wider picture is in Sleeping in your car in the Lake District.

Walks from here

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.