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Lorry parks and truck stops in the UK

390 lorry parks and truck stopsDfT lorry parking survey 2022 and OpenStreetMapUpdated October 2026

390 truck stops, service areas and lorry parks in the UK, most of them from the Department for Transport’s 2022 lorry parking survey with the number of HGV spaces counted there. Plan your daily and weekly rest around parking: a daily rest in the cab needs the vehicle stationary with a bunk for each driver.

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Truck stops, service areas and lorry parks from the Department for Transport’s National Survey of Lorry Parking 2022, with the HGV capacity DfT counted at each site, plus car parks with HGV spaces mapped on OpenStreetMap. Facilities come from the 2017 survey where the site matched; check before you rely on a space.

Places with the most

Questions

Is lorry parking free?
Some sites are free and many charge; where the survey or OpenStreetMap records it, the card says Free or Paid. Check with the site.
Where do the HGV space numbers come from?
From the Department for Transport’s National Survey of Lorry Parking 2022: the site-level data, released under the Freedom of Information Act (request FOI-00080318). Numbers can have changed since the survey.
How many lorry parks and truck stops are there in the UK?
390 are on the list used here. South East has the most (69).