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Top story Broadland Remembrance Sunday: 8 Nov and the Thorpe closure Remembrance Sunday is 8 November 2026. Last year Thorpe St Andrew shut Yarmouth Road from 10am to 1.15pm; Hellesdon meets at St Mary's at 10.50am. · 4 min read

Dates for the diary

  1. On now to 1 Nov Journeys: Global Textiles from the Karun Thakar Collection Blickling Estate
  2. On now to 4 Oct Aylsham Food Festival Aylsham Town Centre
  3. On now to 8 Nov Stranger Folk, Volume 1: Crone Calling Blickling Estate
  4. On now to 4 Oct Halloween at BeWILDerwood BeWILDerwood
  5. Sun 4 Oct October Makers Market 10am · Wroxham Barns · Free
  6. Mon 5 Oct Blickling Bounders weekly dog walk 10am · Blickling Estate · Free
  7. Fri 9 Oct Blickling Social Walk 10am · Blickling Estate
  8. Fri 9 Oct Journeys: Global Garden Tour 10.15am · Blickling Estate
  9. Fri 9 Oct Dippy's After School Adventure: Halloween Party 5pm · ROARR! · From £8
  10. Sat 10 Oct Blickling parkrun 9am · Blickling Park · Free
  11. Sat 10 Oct Catton parkrun 9am · Catton Park · Free
  12. Sat 10 Oct Brundall parkrun 9am · Brundall Countryside Park · Free

More stories

Halloween Broads Halloween 2026: Pumpkins From £2, BeWILDerwood Trail Wroxham Barns' free pumpkin patch opens 10 October, BeWILDerwood's Halloween runs to 1 November, and Pettitts gives every paying child a free pumpkin. · 7 min read Christmas BeWILDerwood Christmas 2026: no dates yet, £17.50 in 2025 BeWILDerwood Norfolk has not announced its 2026 Christmas event. In 2025 it ran 11 dates from 29 November, £17.50 each, with a light trail and mini panto. · 3 min read Events What's On in the Broads: Food Festival, Then Pumpkin Picking Aylsham Food Festival ends with a £13 brunch on 4 October, Wroxham Barns' free pumpkin patch opens on the 10th, and two fireworks displays fire on 7 November. · 10 min read Christmas Broads Christmas Markets 2026: Fairhaven and Wroxham Barns Fairhaven's Christmas Market is Saturday 21 November, 11am to 8pm, free. Wroxham Barns has about 60 stalls on 1 November and a Christmas makers market on 5-6 December. · 3 min read Christmas Santa's Grotto Around the Broads 2026: Dates and Prices ROARR! at Lenwade sees Father Christmas on 4 to 23 December, £22 a child with one adult. Wroxham Barns has private grotto visits at £25 a child. All dates and prices. · 4 min read Christmas Fairhaven Christmas Lights Walk 2026: 12 Nights, £8.95 Fairhaven's Christmas Lights Walk runs on 12 evenings from 21 November to 23 December, 4pm to 8.30pm. Adults £8.95, children £5.95, under-4s and dogs free. · 4 min read Thorpe St Andrew Broadland fireworks 2026: Spixworth and Wroxham on 7 Nov Spixworth Scouts and Wroxham Barns both fire on Saturday 7 November 2026. Thorpe St Andrew, Aylsham and Sprowston have not set dates yet: what each ran in 2025. · 7 min read Aylsham Blickling Garden of Lights Is Not Returning in 2026 Blickling Hall Christmas 2026: no Garden of Lights, but 11 late openings to 7pm from 28 Nov and a Shaun the Sheep trail from 14 Nov. No booking needed. · 4 min read Aylsham Bure Valley Santa train: 10 Festive Express dates in Dec The Festive Express runs 10 dates from Aylsham in December 2026, with a 30-minute steam ride, Santa's grotto and a present. No price is published yet. · 4 min read Aylsham Aylsham Christmas lights 2026: up 15 Nov, switch-on TBC Aylsham's Christmas lights go up on Sunday 15 November behind a road closure. No switch-on date yet; last year it ran 5pm to 9pm on Friday 28 November. · 6 min read