Wroxham Barns brings midnight forward with low-bang fireworks, 4pm to 8pm, £55 a pitch. The Norfolk Mead's party has fireworks, doors 8pm. No council display.

Two places in Broadland have put on a New Year’s Eve fireworks night for 2026. Wroxham Barns at Hoveton “brings midnight forward” with a family evening of low-bang fireworks between 4pm and 8pm on Thursday 31 December, at £55 a pitch. The Norfolk Mead hotel at Coltishall holds an adult party with fireworks to see in 2027, doors at 8pm. We found no public display run by Broadland District Council or a town council.

The quick answer

  • Is there anything on this year? Yes. Both events are on their organisers’ websites and on sale.
  • For young children: Wroxham Barns, Thursday 31 December, gates 4pm, finishes 8pm. Low-bang fireworks set to film music. £55 a pitch for up to four people. The fireworks time is not fixed yet.
  • For adults seeing in midnight: The Norfolk Mead, Coltishall. Doors 8pm, fizz, canapés, a DJ and fireworks. £45 a person on the event page.
  • A council display? None that we could find for Broadland.
  • Daytime: Fairhaven is open 9am to 2pm, and the Bure Valley Railway’s Mince Pie Special runs between Christmas and 3 January.

Wroxham Barns: low-bang fireworks, 4pm to 8pm

Wroxham Barns calls its evening a New Year’s Eve Party Night and says it is “bringing midnight forward” so that children can see the fireworks. The display is low-bang, set to music from family films, and is the same format as the barns’ November fireworks (Wroxham Barns: New Years Eve Party Night).

  • When: Thursday 31 December 2026. Gates open at 4pm and you can arrive any time after that; the event finishes at 8pm.
  • Fireworks time: not fixed yet. Wroxham Barns says it is “still finalising the timings” for the display and will post them on the event page.
  • Where: Wroxham Barns, Tunstead Road, Hoveton, NR12 8QU.
  • Price: £55 a pitch, which covers up to four people. Babies and children count towards the four.
  • Bigger groups: up to six people on one pitch. The price list says £12.50 for each extra person; the FAQ on the same page says £12.95. Check the figure at checkout.
  • Included: the fireworks, the children’s entertainer Moore Madness, and the Adventure Play after dark: the train ride, mini golf, go-karts and bouncing pillows.
  • Food and drink: food trucks, the barns’ own Greedy Goat, and a licensed bar. The full food line-up is not out yet.

Each family gets a pitch on arrival, so you can leave chairs and blankets there and go off to the play area until the display. The pitches are on the camping field, which Wroxham Barns describes as arable land: it says the field should be accessible for wheelchair users, but warns of uneven ground and rabbit holes in places. Everything before the display happens on the Adventure Farm and Adventure Play, which are gravel but accessible.

The Norfolk Mead: party and fireworks from 8pm

The Norfolk Mead is the country house hotel on Church Loke in Coltishall, by the Bure. Its New Year’s Eve Party and Fireworks starts at 8pm on Thursday 31 December, with a glass of bubbly on arrival, canapés, a DJ and a fireworks display as the year turns (The Norfolk Mead: New Year’s Eve Party).

  • Price: £45 a person on the party’s own page. The hotel’s tapas dinner page describes the party as running 8pm to 2am at £40 a person, so confirm the price when you book.
  • Booking: call 01603 737531 and choose option 3, or email events@norfolkmead.co.uk. The hotel says tickets are limited.
  • Dinner first: a New Year’s Eve tapas dinner runs from 6pm to 10pm in the restaurant, with sharing platters. The menu is not out yet. Book on 01603 737 531 or info@norfolkmead.co.uk (The Norfolk Mead: New Year’s Eve Tapas Dinner).

The party is aimed at adults, and the page says nothing about children. If you are bringing anyone under 18, ask when you book.

Is there a council fireworks display?

Not that we could find. Broadland has no single civic New Year’s Eve display, in the same way that it has no single bonfire night display: in November the biggest show was the one Thorpe St Andrew Town Council runs, and none of the town and parish councils we follow has published a New Year’s Eve event. If one is announced, we will add it here.

New Year’s Eve in the daytime

  • Fairhaven Woodland and Water Garden, South Walsham, is open 9am to 2pm on New Year’s Eve, last entry 1.30pm. Its Great Fairhaven Elf Hunt runs to 31 December, at £9.95 a child including garden entry (Fairhaven: calendar). Our Fairhaven lights walk page has the garden’s other Christmas hours.
  • Bure Valley Railway’s Mince Pie Special runs from Sunday 27 December to Sunday 3 January, steam trains between Aylsham and Wroxham, 45 minutes each way, with a free mince pie back at Aylsham. The railway says to check its timetable for times; the day-by-day running dates were not on it when we looked (Bure Valley Railway: Mince Pie Special). More on our Santa train page.
  • Blickling Hall’s A Woolly Winter Adventure is on daily from 28 November to 4 January, 11am to 3pm, says the National Trust; free to members, normal admission for others (National Trust).

Getting there and home

Wroxham Barns advertises free parking for its markets; the New Year’s Eve page does not mention parking, so check when you book. For Coltishall, check the last buses and trains before you book anything: Christmas and New Year rail timetables are on our Christmas trains and buses page, which we update as the operators publish them. All eight Broadland council car parks are free; see parking in Broadland. Check Broadland roadworks and travel before you set out.

For everything else on in the next six weeks, see what’s on in the Broads this month.

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