Knights Leisure, operator of Camelot theme park in Chorley, Lancashire, has announced that the park will not be reopening for the 2013 season.

Speaking to BALPPA, the British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions, Knights Leisure director Mark Leader said: "Whilst we have become used to the inclement summer weather in the UK during the past few years, a combination of the wettest summer for 100 years, the Queen's Jubilee celebrations followed by the spectacular television coverage of the Olympic Games during our busiest months of the year had a major impact on visitors to the park." 

All of the equipment owned by Knights Leisure is to be put up for sale.

Camelot theme park closed temporarily in early 2009 when its owner Prime Resorts went into administration. It reopened two months later in May after being acquired by The Story Group, a newly-formed company led by the former chief executive of Prime Resorts, Roy Page. The park was then leased to Knights Leisure.