Carleton, Penrith
The same field,
every time.
Holiday lodges for sale on an owners-only park above the Eden Valley, seven minutes from Penrith. No holiday lets. Nobody new next door on a Friday.
Friday, about six
You turn off at junction 40 and the week starts letting go of you.
Three miles of A road, then a lane. The hedges drop away and the valley is there, and so is the field, and so is your lodge, exactly where you left it. The van two along belongs to the same couple it belonged to last April. Nobody has been in your place while you were away, because nobody lets them.
Every lodge here belongs to the person who bought it
There are no holiday lets on this park. On the lodge side there is no week to book. The people either side of you in year ten are the people either side of you now.
That is the whole product. A park with a letting programme cannot sell it to you at any price, and most of the parks you are looking at have one.
There is a touring field as well, with twenty seasonal pitches. That is a different thing and it lives on its own page.
The difference
Twelve weeks of neighbours.
Drag through a season.
A park that lets its lodges out
- Week 1, a different household
- Week 2, a different household
- Week 3, a different household
- Week 4, a different household
- Week 5, a different household
- Week 6, a different household
- Week 7, a different household
- Week 8, a different household
- Week 9, a different household
- Week 10, a different household
- Week 11, a different household
- Week 12, a different household
Twelve different households.
Here
- Week 1, the same owners
- Week 2, the same owners
- Week 3, the same owners
- Week 4, the same owners
- Week 5, the same owners
- Week 6, the same owners
- Week 7, the same owners
- Week 8, the same owners
- Week 9, the same owners
- Week 10, the same owners
- Week 11, the same owners
- Week 12, the same owners
The same ones you waved at in April.
A drawing of a rule, not of anybody real. Both of the park's own older websites print the same line: every holiday home here is privately owned, and there is no subletting.
Look before you ring
Five of them you can walk through
at eleven at night, on your own.
No appointment and nobody stood next to you. These walkthroughs already exist. Most parks make you ring for a viewing before they will show you a room.
How near things are
- 7minPenrith town centre2.4 miles
- 7minPenrith railway station2.4 miles
- 6minM6 junction 403.0 miles
- 13minLowther Castle6.2 miles
Driving distances from CA11 8SR, routed on OpenStreetMap data, 11 September 2026, on clear roads. A guide, not a promise.
Three things that might put you off
Better here than on a viewing.
You can hear the A66.
the closeness of the A66 road which is always busy and provides a distant traffic hum 24/7
Bigal1870, October 2019
The nearest pub is a mile, and there is no pavement.
1 pub about a mile away along quite a busy road with no pavement
JF60, August 2022
There is no play area for children.
There is no play area (bonus for us)
Podbods, August 2017
Fifteen people have reviewed this park in public and the listing scores ten out of ten. We print the awkward bits too, because a park that hides the traffic hum should not be believed about the quiet.
What fifteen people said, with nothing taken out
Fifteen reviews on ukcampsite.co.uk, June 2016 to August 2022. The listing scores ten out of ten. We have not edited a word, and we have not taken the awkward bits out.
Excellent quiet site, good sized fully serviced pitches. Shower block very clean and spacious with pre-determined heat temperature and press button. Motorhomers, 1 pub about a mile away along quite a busy road with no pavement and not brilliant. Can walk into Penrith, around 30 mins but not picturesque. Buses are about a mile away. Location for motorhomers not great but perfect for caravanners
JF60·August 2022·Motorhome
This campsite is lovely. Very close to a lot of great locations. The toilets are very nice and well kept. The showers are nice and hot and kept clean. Each pitch was tidy with their own water and electricity point (and TV aerial if needed) it was beautiful to look out of the caravan over the fields and was very quiet. We met some lovely caravaners on the site too that are regulars to the site.
Abbiebrown08·June 2021·Touring caravan
Excellent campsite. Toilet and shower facilities are first class and kept clean. This is our third visit to the site and will definitely be back. Easily accessible too the Lake District.
Thedor·September 2020·Touring caravan
Lovely site with great facilities and friendly attentive owner. 16amp power bollard with tv output, fresh water and waste water disposal available on each pitch. Nice views. Only negative would be the closeness of the A66 road which is always busy and provides a distant traffic hum 24/7. However we wouldn't hesitate to stay again.
Bigal1870·October 2019·Motorhome
Was met by a friendly gentleman who showed us to our pitch and helped park caravan up. A beautiful, quiet site with outstanding toilet and shower block. Will definitely be returning to this site.
Habbsy·August 2019·Touring caravan
This is a gem. Around 20 huge fully serviced pitches (water, waste, electric and tv aerial). Toilets are fabulous. Long, wet room style shower cubicle with no shower curtain and a little sink. Underfloor heating in toilet block. Owners are lovely and very helpful. Best site we have been at for some time. There is no play area (bonus for us) and you would need a car to get to a shop or pub. Would go out of our way to use again.
Podbods·August 2017·Touring caravan
You will own this in February too
Every other park sells you July. There is a page here about what a Cumbrian winter is actually like in a timber lodge, including the parts nobody puts in a brochure. Read it before you buy anything, here or anywhere.
Come and look.
Take as long as you like.
Ring first so somebody is about. Then walk the field on your own, and go away and think about it.