Sevenoaks Fireworks 2026: Riverhead Off, Edenbridge 7 Nov

Riverhead fireworks are cancelled for 2026. The 3rd Sevenoaks Scouts have called off their display on Saturday 7 November because a number of key volunteers are unavailable, and anyone who bought a ticket will get a full refund (3rd Sevenoaks Scouts). The town’s old Round Table display has not run for a few years either, so there is no public display in Sevenoaks itself this year.

The nearest alternatives on the same weekend: Edenbridge Bonfire on Saturday 7 November (procession 6.30pm, fireworks 8.30pm), free displays at Swanley Recreation Ground and Hextable Park on Friday 6 November, and Nizels in Hildenborough the same Friday. Tonbridge goes a week earlier, on Sunday 1 November. Dunorlan Park’s advance prices ended at midnight on Friday 30 October, so it is now £13 for adults, and Leeds Castle’s Saturday has sold out, leaving only the Sunday.

Bonfire Night itself is Thursday 5 November, a school night, so every organised display sits on the weekends either side. Everything here is checked against the organiser’s own website, ticket page or newsletter, and where a 2026 date has not been published we say so rather than repeating last year’s.

Last checked 31 October 2026.

Fireworks near Sevenoaks 2026 at a glance

Share this chartFacebookWhatsAppXCopy linkEmbed

Godstone Farm Mini Fireworks Festival: has now run

Godstone Farm’s low bang fireworks and lasers show, the one built for small children, ran on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 October, the middle weekend of half term (Godstone Farm). It is the earliest display near Sevenoaks each year, so keep it in mind for next October; for this season, the list starts with Tonbridge.

Tonbridge Fireworks Display: Sunday 1 November 2026

The first display left this season, and the closest large ticketed one. Tonbridge Round Table runs it at the Racecourse Sports Ground in Tonbridge Park, gates at 5pm and the main display, choreographed to music, from 6.30pm (Tonbridge Fireworks).

The 2026 show has a theme: the Round Table is billing it as a Halloween spooktacular, “this year only”, choreographed again by Phoenix Fireworks (Tonbridge Fireworks).

Tickets are on sale now. The advance prices ended at midnight on 24 October, and tickets are now £13.00 for adults over 16 and £9.00 for children aged 5 to 15, against £12.50 and £8.50 last season. Under 5s go free (Tonbridge Fireworks).

An essential companion still goes free, but the check has changed. Instead of showing DLA, PIP or ESA paperwork at the gate, approval now runs through the Access Card scheme, so sort that out before the night. Two things are banned on site: sparklers and drones, and you cannot bring in alcohol; the bars sell it at pub prices. The 2025 display put £20,000 into local charities (Tonbridge Fireworks). One caution: the borough council’s listing still says tickets “from £8.50”, which is last year’s child price, so trust the organiser’s page over the council’s (TMBC).

The practical thing to get right is which way you walk in. Only three entrances open, and tickets are scanned at all three: New Wharf Road next to the Canoe Club, the Avebury Avenue bridge near Hendy’s Ford, and the Lower Castle Field car park bridge. Every other way into the Racecourse is closed off, so arriving at the wrong corner of the park means a long walk round in the dark. There is an accessible viewing area, licensed bars at pub prices, food stalls, first aid and a lost persons tent (Tonbridge Fireworks).

What it means for you: it is a Sunday, which is unusual and easy to get wrong. Tonbridge is about 20 minutes from Sevenoaks by car and roughly 10 minutes by train, and the sports ground is walkable from Tonbridge station, so this is the one display near Sevenoaks you can realistically do without driving or parking.

Swanley firework night: Friday 6 November 2026

Swanley Town Council runs a free bonfire and fireworks night at Swanley Recreation Ground, with a fair and music alongside the display. The council’s events listing gives Friday 6 November 2026, 5pm to 9pm (Swanley Town Council).

Free entry makes this the obvious choice with several children, and it is about 20 minutes from Sevenoaks up the A20 or two stops on the train. Because there are no tickets there is no capacity cap, so get there early if you want to be anywhere near the front.

Hextable fireworks night: Friday 6 November 2026

Hextable, just north of Swanley, has its own free display on the same evening. Hextable Parish Council lists “Fireworks Night, Hextable Park: Friday 6th November” in the dates for the diary in its May 2026 newsletter, and says the village holds a free firework event every November (Hextable Parish Council newsletter, May 2026, Hextable Parish Council). The parish has not yet published a start time, so check its website or noticeboards nearer the night.

What it means for you: Swanley and Hextable fall on the same Friday a mile or so apart, so pick one; both are free and need no ticket.

Nizels Fireworks Night: Friday 6 November 2026

With Riverhead cancelled, this is the nearest public display to Sevenoaks town. Nizels Golf and Country Club in Hildenborough holds its Fireworks Night on Friday 6 November 2026. Gates open at 5.30pm, a children’s disco starts at 6pm, and the fireworks go up at 7.30pm. Stilt walkers, face painting and food and drink fill the time before (Nizels).

Tickets are on sale through the club’s own booking page (Nizels):

• adult £16
• child £11
• family ticket, two adults and two children, £48
• car parking £10 per vehicle

Parking is the catch. Every car needs a pre-booked parking ticket, none are sold on the night, and only 200 exist (Nizels).

What it means for you: book the parking ticket in the same order as the entry tickets, or plan to be dropped off.

Riverhead fireworks 2026: cancelled

The Riverhead Scouts display, which was due on Saturday 7 November 2026 at the Scout Hut on Bradbourne Vale Road, TN13 3DE, will not go ahead. The 3rd Sevenoaks (Riverhead and Dunton Green) Scout Group says a number of its key volunteers are unavailable, and without them it cannot run the night “to the standard, and with the safety, that we and our community expect”. It plans to be back next year (3rd Sevenoaks Scouts).

If you bought tickets, either at a Scout meeting or from The Bullfinch, Frank’s Barbers or Londis in Riverhead:

• you will be refunded in full
• the group says it will be in touch shortly about how refunds will work, and there is nothing you need to do yet
• tickets are no longer on sale anywhere, including the Riverhead shops
• questions go to 3rdglv@sevenoaksscouts.org.uk

All of that is from the group’s own fireworks page (3rd Sevenoaks Scouts). The 2025 display sold out, so a lot of local families are now looking for somewhere else to go.

What it means for you: Riverhead’s quieter 5pm sitting was the obvious choice for toddlers. The closest replacement for small children is Leeds Castle, which is finished by 7pm, though only its Sunday has tickets left. For a free evening close by, Swanley and Hextable are both on Friday 6 November; for the big Saturday night out, Edenbridge.

Edenbridge Bonfire: Saturday 7 November 2026

Edenbridge is the one worth planning a proper evening around. The Edenbridge Bonfire Society runs Kent’s best known bonfire celebration, and the 2026 date is Saturday 7 November. Three times matter: the town centre road closure is advertised as 6pm to 10pm, the torchlit procession sets off at 6.30pm, and the fireworks start at 8.30pm at the Recreation Ground on Lingfield Road (Edenbridge Bonfire Society). Read the closure as a firm start and a loose finish. Every road in and out of the town centre shuts at 6pm prompt and nobody is let through until the event has finished, while the reopening depends on how long the parade runs and can be anywhere between 8pm and 10pm (Edenbridge Bonfire Society FAQs).

It is also the one with the giant satirical effigy, and there are two of them. The society builds a celebrity guy each year alongside the traditional Guy Fawkes, both about 11 metres tall, and both are brought down with gunpowder and flames during the display; the celebrity guy is now a 25 year tradition and has put Edenbridge in the national press more than once (Edenbridge Bonfire Society, KentOnline).

The procession is the other half of the evening and is worth arriving for. It is led by the society’s bishop of the bonfire and his choirboys, with effigies of Guy Fawkes, General Wolfe and Anne Boleyn carrying her own head, followed by visiting Sussex bonfire societies, lit carnival floats, costumed walking parties and marching bands (Edenbridge Bonfire Society). It leaves Fircroft Way once the road closures have been checked, which is why 6.30pm is an aim rather than a promise.

It also passes twice. The procession turns round in the Waitrose car park and comes back up the High Street for a second viewing before finishing at Station Approach, so a float you missed on the way down comes round again (Edenbridge Bonfire Society FAQs). It moves at walking pace or slower, so pick a spot and stay in it rather than chasing it along the pavement.

Where to park, and which station to use

The society names three car parks and four roads to stay away from. Park at Edenbridge Leisure Centre, TN8 5LU, at Market Yard, TN8 5BA, or in the small car park off the High Street behind Le Grys estate agents. Do not park in Fircroft Way, Station Road, the High Street or Mont St Aignan Way: those are the procession route, with large floats and more than a thousand burning torches coming through, and cars left on them are moved on (Edenbridge Bonfire Society FAQs).

The station is the part people coming from Sevenoaks get wrong, because Edenbridge has two of them on two different lines and the nearer one is not the one you can reach from here. Edenbridge Town, a couple of minutes from the procession route, sits on the Oxted line and is the station to use from East Croydon or Uckfield. From Sevenoaks you change at Tonbridge and arrive at Edenbridge station, roughly a ten minute walk from the route (Edenbridge Bonfire Society FAQs). Check the last train back before you set off, because the display does not start until 8.30pm.

On the field

The fireworks are at Edenbridge Recreation Ground, TN8 5HL, and there are two ways in: the Coomb Field entrance just off Lingfield Road, or the gate opposite Waitrose on Mont St Aignan Way (Edenbridge Bonfire Society FAQs). Food stalls sell food and soft drinks and a DJ plays through the evening (Edenbridge Bonfire Society). The one hard rule is alcohol. The society operates a strict no alcohol policy on the bonfire field, and says its security team will confiscate any that is brought in and ask the person carrying it to leave immediately (Edenbridge Bonfire Society FAQs).

Who the celebrity guy is stays secret until close to the night, and the society announces it on its Facebook and Instagram pages rather than on its website, so that is where to watch for it (Edenbridge Bonfire Society FAQs).

The street procession is free to watch, though volunteers work the crowd with collection buckets for local charities, and the society, a volunteer-run not-for-profit approaching its hundredth year, says every penny of that goes straight out again. Entry to the recreation ground for the display is ticketed, and the useful part is how those tickets are sold: they go into local shops usually at the beginning of October, and, unlike almost every other display here, you can also buy on the night (Edenbridge Bonfire Society tickets). Edenbridge is about 25 minutes from Sevenoaks by car, and the town gets very full, so arrive early for one of the car parks above.

What it means for you: the 8.30pm display start is late for small children, and the roads stay shut until the procession is clear, so a slow exit is part of the evening rather than bad luck. If you have a four year old, Swanley, Hextable or Leeds Castle’s early Sunday display will suit you better.

Dunorlan Park, Tunbridge Wells: Saturday 7 November 2026

Royal Tunbridge Wells Round Table runs a charity display over the lake at Dunorlan Park on Saturday 7 November 2026. Festivities start at 5.30pm and the 18-minute display, set to film scores, starts at 7pm (Dunorlan Fireworks).

The advance prices (£11 adult, £7 child) ended at midnight on Friday 30 October. On 31 October the organisers listed the standard prices (Dunorlan Fireworks):

• adult £13.00
• child aged 5 to 15 £9.00
• under 5s free
• family ticket for two adults and one child, or one adult and two children, £30.00
• family ticket for two adults and two children £38.00

Carers go free on showing DLA, PIP or ESA to the gate marshals. Sparklers, drones and your own alcohol are banned. Accessible parking at the Pembury Road car park is limited, and cars there cannot leave until the crowd has gone, so the organisers suggest walking from Crescent Road car park, about 15 minutes away (Dunorlan Fireworks).

St Julians Club, Sevenoaks: Saturday 7 November 2026 (members only)

St Julians, the members’ club off St Julian’s Road in Sevenoaks, holds its own fireworks night on Saturday 7 November. Doors open at 5pm, the fireworks go up at 7pm prompt, and a bonfire and family disco follow. Tickets are £20 per person aged 3 and over and go on sale from 1 October. It is members only, with no guests (St Julians). We list it so members know the date, not as an option for everyone else.

Leeds Castle Fireworks Spectacular: 7 and 8 November 2026

The biggest event in the county, and the one that sells out. The Saturday already has: on 29 October the booking page showed every Saturday ticket out of stock, with Sunday tickets still on sale and billed as limited (Leeds Castle booking). Leeds Castle runs its Fireworks Spectacular on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November 2026, themed around songs about time, with projections and lasers on the castle alongside the display (Leeds Castle).

Tickets are £29.00 for adults aged 16 and over, £20.00 for children aged 3 to 15, and free for under 3s (Leeds Castle booking). Note what you get for that: the site opens at 2pm so you have the grounds all afternoon, the display itself runs roughly 5.30pm to 6pm on the Cedar Lawn, and the event closes at 7pm (Leeds Castle event guide).

What it means for you: an early display finish is genuinely useful with young children, and it is the only nearby event where you are done and driving home before 7.30pm. Leeds Castle is about 45 minutes from Sevenoaks on the M20, a bit beyond the 30 minute radius, but it is the trip people make. Expect a long exit queue.

Displays that usually run but have not announced 2026 dates yet

Sevenoaks Round Table charity fireworks

For years the town’s big event was the Round Table display on the Sevenoaks School sports fields, reached by a torchlit procession up the High Street with food and funfair rides beforehand. It has struggled to secure a venue. The display’s own website still carries the notice cancelling the 2023 event for lack of a venue (Sevenoaks Fireworks), and the Round Table’s events page lists nothing for the 2026 firework season (Sevenoaks Round Table). Treat it as unconfirmed rather than cancelled, and do not build the evening around it.

Reuthe’s, near Sevenoaks

Reuthe’s, the Lost Gardens of Sevenoaks, ran its third annual fireworks weekend in November 2025, but the gardens then closed for major groundworks until March 2026, so the November programme is worth checking rather than assuming (Reuthe’s events).

School and village displays

Radnor House Sevenoaks holds a fireworks night run by Friends of Radnor House, ticketed in advance through Ticket Tailor (Radnor House Sevenoaks). Hextable’s free display is covered above, and several village schools around Tonbridge do their own. These almost always announce in October through school newsletters and village Facebook groups rather than anywhere searchable, so ask locally.

What about Hever and Penshurst?

Neither runs a Bonfire Night display. Hever Castle’s early November event is its Christmas Fair on Friday 6 November 2026, not fireworks (Hever Castle), and we cover that in our guide to Christmas fairs and markets near Sevenoaks. If you are planning the whole autumn, we also have guides to Halloween events near Sevenoaks, the October half term and pumpkin picking near Sevenoaks, all of which run in the weeks just before Bonfire Night, while our things to do in Sevenoaks guide and the what’s on listings cover the rest of the season.

Frequently asked questions

When is Bonfire Night 2026? Thursday 5 November 2026. Because that is a weekday, organised displays cluster on Sunday 1 November and the weekend of Friday 6 to Sunday 8 November, which is why the confirmed events above are spread across those dates rather than on the 5th itself. Godstone Farm’s low bang show went even earlier, on 24 and 25 October, and has now run.

Are the Riverhead fireworks going ahead in 2026? No. The 3rd Sevenoaks Scouts cancelled the Saturday 7 November display because key volunteers are unavailable. Ticket holders will be refunded in full, the group will be in touch about how, and questions go to 3rdglv@sevenoaksscouts.org.uk (3rd Sevenoaks Scouts).

Is there a fireworks display in Sevenoaks town itself? Not a public one in 2026. Riverhead, on the edge of town, is cancelled, and the old Round Table display at Sevenoaks School has had venue problems and is not currently listed (Sevenoaks Round Table). St Julians runs one, but only for its members. The nearest public displays are Nizels in Hildenborough and Swanley and Hextable, all on Friday 6 November, and Edenbridge on Saturday 7 November.

Which fireworks display near Sevenoaks is best for young children? Godstone Farm’s low bang show was built for exactly that, but it ran on 24 and 25 October. Riverhead’s quieter 5pm display would have been the local pick, and it is cancelled this year. That leaves Leeds Castle, which finishes early, with the display around 5.30pm and the site closing at 7pm (Leeds Castle). Only its Sunday has tickets left. Swanley starts at 5pm and is free. Edenbridge, at 8.30pm, is the latest start of the lot.

Are there free firework displays near Sevenoaks? Yes. Swanley Recreation Ground is free and council run, listed for Friday 6 November 2026 (Swanley Town Council); Hextable Park has its free display the same night (Hextable Parish Council); and the Edenbridge torchlit procession through the town is free to watch even if the recreation ground is ticketed (Edenbridge Bonfire Society).

How much are tickets for Leeds Castle fireworks in 2026? £29.00 for adults aged 16 and over, £20.00 for children aged 3 to 15, and free for under 3s. The Saturday has sold out, so Sunday 8 November is the only date left (Leeds Castle). That includes the castle grounds from 2pm, so it is a full afternoon rather than an hour in a field.

When do tickets go on sale? Nizels, Dunorlan Park and Leeds Castle are selling now. Nizels parking tickets are limited to 200 and not sold on the night (Nizels). Leeds Castle’s Saturday 7 November is sold out, and on 29 October it listed limited tickets left for Sunday 8 November (Leeds Castle). Dunorlan’s advance prices ended on 30 October and it now sells at £13 for adults and £9 for children (Dunorlan Fireworks). Tonbridge is selling at £13 for adults and £9 for children, its advance prices having ended on 24 October (Tonbridge Fireworks). Edenbridge puts tickets into local shops usually at the beginning of October and also sells on the night (Edenbridge Bonfire Society tickets). Riverhead tickets are no longer on sale because the display is cancelled; buyers will be refunded (3rd Sevenoaks Scouts). Swanley and Hextable are free and need no ticket.

Where do I park for the Edenbridge bonfire? Edenbridge Leisure Centre, TN8 5LU, Market Yard, TN8 5BA, or the small car park off the High Street behind Le Grys estate agents. The society asks people not to park in Fircroft Way, Station Road, the High Street or Mont St Aignan Way, because the procession and its torches pass along them, and cars left there are moved on (Edenbridge Bonfire Society FAQs). All roads into the town centre close at 6pm prompt, so be parked before then.

Can I get to a display by train from Sevenoaks? Tonbridge is the easiest, roughly 10 minutes on the train with the sports ground walkable from the station. Swanley is two stops up the line. Edenbridge needs care, because it has two stations on two different lines: from Sevenoaks you change at Tonbridge and want Edenbridge, about a ten minute walk from the procession route, not Edenbridge Town, which is the Oxted line station used by people coming from East Croydon or Uckfield (Edenbridge Bonfire Society FAQs). Leeds Castle realistically needs a car.

Sources

• Tonbridge date, times and 2026 prices: Tonbridge Fireworks and Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council
• Swanley 2026 listing: Swanley Town Council
• Hextable 2026 date: Hextable Parish Council newsletter, May 2026
• Edenbridge date, procession and tickets: Edenbridge Bonfire Society and its tickets page
• Edenbridge parking, stations, field entrances, the second pass up the High Street and the no alcohol policy: Edenbridge Bonfire Society FAQs
• Godstone Farm’s 24 and 25 October dates: Godstone Farm
• Nizels date, times, ticket and parking prices: Nizels
• Dunorlan Park date, times and prices: Dunorlan Fireworks
• St Julians members’ display: St Julians
• Leeds Castle 2026 dates, prices and timetable: Leeds Castle, booking page and event guide
• Riverhead Scouts 2026 cancellation and refunds: 3rd Sevenoaks Scouts
• Sevenoaks Round Table listings: Sevenoaks Round Table and the display’s own site, Sevenoaks Fireworks
• Hever Castle November programme: Hever Castle

Every organiser’s own website checked on 29 September 2026 and rechecked on 20 October 2026, when the Riverhead Scouts page showed the 2026 display as cancelled and the Round Table’s events listing was still empty. Tonbridge, Dunorlan, Leeds Castle, Edenbridge, Swanley and Riverhead were read again on 29 October 2026: Tonbridge at £13 and £9, Dunorlan’s advance prices to midnight on 30 October, Leeds Castle’s Saturday sold out, Riverhead still cancelled. Dunorlan, Tonbridge and Leeds Castle were read once more on 31 October 2026: Dunorlan now at its standard £13 and £9, Tonbridge unchanged, Leeds Castle’s Sunday still on sale with limited tickets. Hextable’s date comes from the parish council’s May 2026 newsletter. Confirm before you set off.