Stratford Fireworks 2026: Both Displays Over

Stratford Rugby Club’s bonfire and fireworks night, the town’s main display, took place on Sunday 1 November 2026 at Pearcecroft, Loxley Road. Warmington’s display followed on Thursday 5 November, with Mollington Lane closed from 5.30pm to 8pm, so bonfire night 2026 in the district is over. The details of the Stratford night are kept below for reference; the club usually runs it on the Sunday nearest bonfire night.

Updated 7 November: both displays have now taken place.

Updated 3 November: the Stratford display has taken place. The district council’s list of road closures still carries the Warmington display on Thursday 5 November.

Updated 31 October: the Ticketebo page still sells “On the Day” tickets at £8.50 adult and £5 child, and still does not name the off-site car park the council is opening. Neither the district’s list of road closures nor the town council carries a Loxley Road closure notice. Allow time to park in town and walk.

Updated 27 October: the £7.50 and £4 advance tickets have gone from the Ticketebo page, which now sells only “On the Day” tickets at £8.50 adult and £5 child. The off-site car park is still unnamed.

Updated 29 September: the club has opened 2026 ticket sales on Ticketebo, confirming the running order below.

That date comes from the club’s events page, which carries the entry “Rugby Club Bonfire & Fireworks Night” with a start date of Sun 1 Nov 2026 and times of 17:00 to 21:00.

One caveat, and it matters if you are reading the listing yourself. The description printed under that date still says “1st November 2025”. It is last year’s copy, and last year’s display was actually on Sunday 2 November 2025, per the club’s own Ticketebo booking page, which now reads “This event has ended”. So the date field is this year’s and the paragraph beneath it is not.

Bonfire night falls on a Thursday

5 November 2026 is a Thursday. The rugby club display sits four days before it, on the Sunday. That is the club’s usual habit: it ran on Sunday 2 November in 2025 and on Sunday 5 November in 2023.

What the club has published, and what it has not

From the club’s own material, the running order in past years has been consistent:

Those times are on the club’s 2026 ticket page, and match 2025 and the club’s 2023 announcement. The events diary gives the whole evening as 5pm to 9pm.

Tickets

Those are the prices on the 2026 Ticketebo page on 27 October, where all three are labelled “On the Day”. Until at least 20 October the same page sold advance tickets at £7.50 adult and £4 child; those are no longer listed, so the advance price has gone. The £8.50 top figure matches the “£0.00 to £8.50” range on the club’s own events page. In past years entry was also payable at the gate, cash or card, per the 2023 notice. The club has not said whether the gate takes payment in 2026, so buying on Ticketebo before you go is the safe option.

Still not published: the road closure detail, beyond the club’s note that closures “will be in place around the club”.

The club calls the event “widely known as the best show in town” and lists a bonfire, a fireworks display, food stalls, mulled wine and fairground rides.

Parking is the part to plan

The club is blunt about this. Its 2026 ticket page says parking at the ground “is reserved for disabled badge holders” and that road closures will be in place around the club, so plan your journey and parking in advance. It also says the council will open a public car park off site on the night. It does not say which one.

Pearcecroft is on Loxley Road, on the eastern edge of Stratford on the way out towards Loxley. The district council’s town car parks are the realistic fallback, and every one of them is a walk away. Tariffs are on our Stratford parking page, and the overnight rate, 4pm to 8am, is £3.50.

No closure for the display appears on the district council’s list of road closures, even after its 21 October update, and the town council’s news page carries no Loxley Road notice either (both checked 27 October). On Sunday 1 November the list does close Waterside, from Bridge Street to Sheep Street, from 9am to 6pm for the Waterside Upmarket, but that is clear well before the gates open. That list covers events the district council administers, so a Warwickshire County Council order for Loxley Road would not necessarily appear on it. Anything else affecting your route is on our roadworks and travel page.

Anywhere else in the district?

One more display is now on the record. The district council’s road closure list, updated 21 October, closes Mollington Lane in Warmington from 5.30pm to 8pm on Thursday 5 November for the “Annual Warmington Bonfire and Fireworks Display”. The list gives no ticket or start time detail and we have not found the organiser’s own listing, so treat the road closure hours as the only confirmed facts.

We could not find a published 2026 display in Alcester, Bidford-on-Avon, Henley-in-Arden, Shipston-on-Stour, Southam, Studley or Wellesbourne, and none of them is on the closure list. If your village runs a display and it is not here, tell us and we will add it.

What to watch for

The 2026 Stratford display is over. This page will be updated when the rugby club lists its 2027 date on its events page.