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Top story Thorpe St Andrew Christmas Lights: Switch-On Sun 29 Nov Thorpe St Andrew's Christmas lights switch-on is Sunday 29 November at River Green, with Yarmouth Road shut 2.30pm to 7.30pm. Diversion, parking, new lights. · 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 8 Nov Stranger Folk, Volume 1: Crone Calling Blickling Estate
  3. On now to 1 Nov Halloween at BeWILDerwood BeWILDerwood
  4. On now to 31 Oct Pumpkin Patch at Wroxham Barns Wroxham Barns · Free
  5. Thu 22 Oct Autumn Lanterns Workshop 6.30pm · Urban Clay · From £45
  6. Thu 22 Oct The Languages of Norwich and Norfolk: talk by Prof Chris Joby 7pm · Aylsham Town Hall · From £5
  7. 23 Oct to 1 Nov Halloween Days at ROARR! ROARR! · From £10
  8. 23 Oct to 1 Nov Magic & Mischief at Wroxham Barns Wroxham Barns · From £13.50
  9. Fri 23 Oct Blickling Social Walk 10am · Blickling Estate
  10. Fri 23 Oct Aylsham Picture House: Thelma & Louise 7.30pm · Aylsham Town Hall
  11. 24 Oct to 1 Nov Kids Go Free October Half Term Bure Valley Railway, Aylsham Station
  12. Sat 24 Oct Blickling parkrun 9am · Blickling Park · Free

More stories

Christmas Norwich Ice Rink 2026: Winter Wonderland From 20 Nov Winter Wonderland Norwich's real ice rink opens Friday 20 November at Norfolk Showground and runs to 3 January. Free entry and parking; skate hire included. · 4 min read Christmas Broadland Panto 2026: Peter Pan in Norwich, 5 Dec to 3 Jan Norwich Theatre Royal's Peter Pan runs 5 December to 3 January, tickets from £10, with Joe Tracini as Smee. Every show time, access dates and parking. · 5 min read Remembrance Thorpe St Andrew Remembrance: Yarmouth Road Shut 8 Nov Yarmouth Road in Thorpe St Andrew shuts 10am to 1.15pm on Sunday 8 November for the Remembrance parade. Hellesdon usually meets at St Mary's at 10.50am. · 4 min read Halloween Broads Halloween 2026: Free Pumpkin Patch Daily From 23 Oct Wroxham Barns' pumpkin patch is free to enter, pumpkins from £2, daily 23 to 31 October. BeWILDerwood runs daily 24 Oct to 1 Nov, ROARR! 23 Oct to 1 Nov. · 9 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: Half Term, Then Fireworks on 7 Nov Half term opens with Lingwood's fireworks on 24 October; Thorpe St Andrew, Spixworth and Wroxham Barns all fire on 7 November. Then ice skating from 20 Nov. · 11 min read Christmas Broads Christmas Markets 2026: Fairhaven and Wroxham Barns Wroxham Barns' Winter Makers Market is Sunday 1 November, 10am to 3pm, 60-plus stalls. Fairhaven's Christmas Market is 21 November, 11am to 8pm, free. · 4 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 Thorpe St Andrew Fireworks 7 Nov: Roads Shut 4pm to 9pm Thorpe St Andrew's fireworks are Saturday 7 November, with Pound Lane shut 4pm to 9pm. Lingwood fires 24 October; Spixworth and Wroxham Barns also 7 Nov. · 10 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. · 9 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