24 Hour Self Storage facility in Carlisle, Cumbria with Your Lock Your Key®

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Your Lock Your Key® Self Storage in Carlisle & Cumbria UK | Excellent value | A recognised brand to trust in the world of self storage. Get storing in 2026!
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Your Lock Your Key self storage facility in Cumbria

Your Lock Your Key® self storage facility, Carlisle & Cumbria. Gigantic storage Rental Facility. Drive up to your unit!

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Cumbria’s premier self storage operators. Furniture storage, business, vehicle and more.

Unlimited access to your contents, 24 hours, 7 days a week. Drive up access. Even on weekends. From Less than £20 p/w. The most affordable storage around in Cumbria. We cover Carlisle, Cumbria, The Lake District and South West Scotland.

Long established Cumbrian owned storage rental company

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Tel: 01228 590397

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“Full range of brand new storage units; Jumbo, Standard and half sized storage units for 2026 and beyond” – which ever size suits your needs.”

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2025 self storage industry award certificate

Award winning 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 & 2025

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Hire a shipping container self storage unit today with 24/7, 365 day a year drive-up access.

“Let us exceed your expectations. We guarantee you will experience the very best in service, rates and quality during your time with us.”


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Superb green box (above) and blue box (below) storage units on site
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Hire a self storage unit in Carlisle with the minimum of fuss! Be it household contents or business use, hiring a unit on flexible month to month terms is easy!

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From less than £20 a week. Optional Insured contents for furniture or your possessions!

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The best 24/7, 365 days a year drive up insured secure self storage in Carlisle; five acre facility in the City Centre.

With all our units conveniently positioned on the ground floor, your car, van or removals vehicle can easily gain access and drive directly to your unit without the need of navigating tiring stairs and lifts.

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Drive – up access by car or lorry is vital to your unit – it’s the entire concept of our storage facility!


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Your Lock Your Key®

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See what size of unit best suits your needs!

Tel: 01228 590397

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All about us in this thirty second video!

Shipping Container Self Storage is the most cost efficient way of storing anything from personal or business belongings.

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A Your Lock Your Key® storage facility in Carlisle, Cumbria puts you in control of your possessions! All storage sites proudly bearing the “Your Lock Your Key®” logo means its passed an intensive fifteen point inspection for your benefit.

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Furniture grade storage units from £20 a week, easy to operate and access 24/7

No one else has access to your unit

CCTV and compounded security sites

Competitor price checked

Friendliness and professionalism

Non compulsory contents insurance

Assistance with house removals

Safe sites; floodlit and regularly maintained with security in mind

24hr access facility 365 days a year

No minimum storage length

Industrial units, workshops, garages, land and space also available.

We cater for students, business, trade, document, and house moving.

We can provide vehicle parking also.

Sites located in easy to use locations

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Never struggle when it comes to loading and unloading – small and large vehicles are no problem at all!

Let us relieve you of storage conundrums with just one phone call!

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Our secure self storage facilities are based on easy to use flexible and efficient locations on purpose built and designed security sites.. Based in Carlisle City Centre, our largest Your Lock Your Key® security site is located on the popular Rome Street Depot in Carlisle – a super location which makes it handy and easy to access, and on Tyne Street, off London Road in Carlisle, fit for the needs of the 2020’s.

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Clean & ready to use storage units

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Our units are kept nice and clean ready for your belongings.

Based directly in Carlisle City Centre.

Being City Centre based, on the fringe of the City Centre, we are also easily accessible from the M6 motorway, J42 – 44, the A595 (West Cumbria), the A7, A66, A69, A74 and A75 routes should you be travelling from away.

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So easy to get to from all directions and easy to get to from Carlisle’s three M6 junctions!

Located near Carlisle City Centre on main arterial routes, its easy to get to a Your Lock Your Key® self store site within reasonable distance of the M6, A66, A69 routes making it handy for The Lakes. The Rome Street Depot site is our biggest facility in Carlisle of approximately five acres. This means any sized vehicle is able to easily access quickly and safely, any time of the day, with suitable turning circles for ease of loading and unloading while on site.

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Coded entry on to site 24/7 – all sizes of vehicles can gain access safely to your unit

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Container storage can be a perfect storage solution…

We cater for storing a single box to an entire house contents, so have varying sizes of units geared for your requirements. Because our self storage units are mainly brand new and constantly renewed, they are suited and geared to furniture storage.


Storage sizes video:

Play the video below to see some popular unit sizes, or press here to navigate to our storage sizes page.


We also provide other forms of storage including vehicle parking for short or long term purposes. Park a vehicle, such as a car or van short or long term.

If you’re relocating to the area, this handy link will provide further information regarding the UK House Price Index in the United Kingdom, courtesy of HM Land Registry.

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Moving to Cumbria? Enjoy the Cumbrian lifestyle while we take care of your belongings!

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We have a range of mini blue and green box smaller units too!

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Hire by the month for best value – whether you are moving home or just looking for a declutter, you can store your possessions for as little as long as you want starting from less than the cost of a cup of coffee a day and we have a new range of mini storage units for those wanting to store less at even greater rates!

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Above Video: Our 10 foot Mini Containers – HALF usual size at 80 square foot.
Above: Driving your vehicle directly to a ground floor unit makes perfect sense.- why bother with staircases and passages?

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We have lots of sizes to meet your needs – from small to jumbo sized storage units!

Tel: 01228 590397

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Easy to operate and lock storage container units which can hold a house-full of contents
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All units are of the highest quality to allow short or long term storage

We always ensure your goods or furniture are stored in the very best grade storage units which means it’s ideal for long term, or just short term storage. For as long as required!

Can we suggest other forms of storage including lock up garages?

Let us point you in the direction for Lock Up Garage storage – lock up garages are an alternative form of self storage and are ideal for vehicle storage, household belongings, plant storage and trades uses. Also, commercial storage e.g. small industrial space, commercial land and compound space for rent. If you have a storage need that is ‘outside of the box’, let us know. We can help. Try this link for lock up garages: lock up garage storage page

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Other than garages, we have workshops and industrial units for rent.

Fully insured contents.

All our sites provide the option of fully insured contents, no matter what the value of your contents may be. This is a useful service for those storing expensive or sentimental pieces of furniture. Further help with our useful question and answers covering more in depth matters can be found on our dedicated page.

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Cumbria – If you’re relocating to the area, our sites are City Centre based, but just minutes from open countryside!

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Carlisle Depot is so easy to get to!

Let us take the stress out of self storage!

Remember; We provide 24/7 “drive up” access; You can drive your car, van or removals vehicle direct to the doors of your storage unit. All units are sited on the ground floor – there is no transporting goods and possessions up staircases or into lifts and corridors.

Need advice on which removal company to use?

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If you’re struggling with removing your contents, using a specialist firm is cheaper than you think. Take a look at our handy removals and useful links page for more information. Any reputable local removal company know our sites well.

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Tel: 01228 590397


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What is a Your Lock Your Key® site all about?

We’re all about providing excellence, value for money and complete flexibility and simplicity. There’s no tie in periods, just simple month to month storage, without having to tie yourself down to onerous agreements.

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So am I allowed to store anything in my storage unit?

To see what you can (and can’t) store, you may want to take a quick look at our helpful page for a brief moment by clicking on the link.

To sum up, our storage container units are the very best available, easy to operate and use, family friendly, and are capable of storing up to six bedroom houses worth of contents.
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Tel: 01228 590397

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Our sites can be accessed even in evening time, including Saturday and Sunday.

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Who uses a Your Lock Your Key® storage site?

Students looking for inexpensive storage.

Householders who are moving home or relocating to the area.

Commercial users – businesses are welcome on site.

Builders, house renovators, tradesmen.

Anyone running an on-line business.

People wanting to De Clutter prior to selling their property.

Ebay storage users.

Short term or Long term storage users.

Overflow storage users.

People looking for a quick, easy hassle free way of quickly and efficiently storing their possessions.

We provide insured storage for peace of mind and a stress free storage experience.

Small business use as a commercial storage base or office.

Those looking for larger areas of storage space including workshops or compounds.

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Why should YOU use a Your Lock Your Key® site?

Sites are unbeatable on like-for-like pricing.

Storage container units are mainly brand new and clean.

You’re not tied into difficult contracts – when you want to leave, just let us know.

Security sites are clean, friendly, floodlit and under CCTV.

Varying locations situated in Carlisle City Centre and close to motorway junctions.

A full 24hr support and help line service is provided.

Cheapest and lowest pricing in the region for the highest quality self storage units.

You’re dealing with a branded operator who has been operating for decades.

The best possible prices for the quality available.

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Top of the range storage available to all ; for the right price

Tel: 01228 590397

Moving house or relocating? We’ve an informative handy check list…

Moving dates, exchange and completion of contracts. We completely understand! But it needn’t be as stressful as you think! Arranging your self storage with us removes a whole layer of stress!

If you’re moving house and need to find a Removals firm, Storage Carlisle® provide a very useful 52 point check list if you’re moving home and by clicking on this link, you’ll learn more including van hire, advice on moving and relocating home among other useful facts.

One phone call to 01228 590397 gets you storage.

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All excellent ground floor storage for furniture, student storage, business storage or domestic storage!

Tel: 01228 590397

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