Stratford's 2026 service was held on Sunday 8 November at the Garden of Remembrance, with the march past in Church Street. Next year: Sunday 14 November 2027.

Updated 9 November: the 2026 commemorations took place on Sunday 8 November. Remembrance Sunday 2027 falls on Sunday 14 November; the town council usually publishes its closure notice in early October. The 2026 details are kept below for reference.

Remembrance Sunday fell on 8 November this year, and eight Stratford town centre streets were closed from 7am to noon for the parade and the service at the Garden of Remembrance on Old Town. That is confirmed: the district council’s road closure order was signed on 1 October and the town council published it on 2 October.

The town council’s 2026 event page is now up: arrival from 10.30am, the service and wreath laying at the Garden of Remembrance, then the march past and salute in Church Street, opposite the District Council building. It lists the morning as 10.30am to 12pm, free.

Updated 3 November: the town council has published its 2026 event page with the arrival time (10.30am) and the march past in Church Street.

Updated 27 October: the district council’s 2026 closure list, last updated 21 October, now gives confirmed times for seven other parades (table below). Tanworth-in-Arden and Henley-in-Arden are new on it; Bidford-on-Avon, listed last year, is not.

Updated 6 October: the 2026 road closure order is published. Same eight streets as 2025, but from 7am rather than 9.45am.

What is confirmed for 2026, and what is not

Remembrance Sunday is the second Sunday in November. In 2026 that is Sunday 8 November. Armistice Day, the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, falls on the Wednesday after, 11 November 2026.

The road closure and the running order are both confirmed. The town council’s 2026 Remembrance Commemorations page, checked 3 November, gives the morning:
Arrival from 10.30am
Service and wreath laying Garden of Remembrance, Old Town
March past and salute Church Street, opposite the District Council building, after the service
Ends 12pm
Price Free

That is the same shape as last year’s. The page does not give a parade assembly point or time, and the town council lists no separate Armistice Day event for Wednesday 11 November.

The road closures

The town council’s 2026 notice, published on 2 October, closes these streets from 07:00 to 12:00 on Sunday 8 November. The attached order, the Stratford-on-Avon District Council (Road Closure No. 29) Order 2026, sealed on 1 October, gives the same times and names the event as the “Stratford Remembrance Parade”:

  • Church Street
  • Chapel Street
  • Chapel Lane
  • Southern Lane
  • Old Town
  • College Street
  • Bull Street, from the junction with Chestnut Walk to the junction with Narrow Lane
  • Waterside, from the junction with Sheep Street to where it becomes Southern Lane

That is the same list of streets as last year’s notice, which closed them from 9.45am. The new start time is 7am. The order bans driving and waiting on the streets while it is in force, with the usual exemptions for emergency vehicles, statutory undertakers in an emergency and anything done on a police officer’s direction. If you live on Old Town, College Street or Southern Lane and need the car before noon, move it out before 7am.

Waterside is shut twice over that morning

This is the part worth knowing if you are driving in. The Waterside Upmarket is already on the district council’s 2026 closure list for Sunday 8 November, 9.00am to 6.00pm, closing Waterside from the junction with Bridge Street to the junction with Sheep Street.

The Remembrance closure picks up at exactly that point and runs the other way, from Sheep Street down to Southern Lane. Between them they take the whole of Waterside out for the morning.

Park and Ride is the other trap. Warwickshire County Council’s Park and Ride page says the dedicated bus does not run on Sundays between November and Easter except for advertised special events, and Remembrance Sunday has not been named as one. Town centre car park tariffs are on our Stratford parking page, and anything else on your route is on our roadworks and travel page.

Seven other parades across the district

Stratford is not the only one, and several start earlier. These are the 2026 closures on the district council’s list of road closures, published on 21 October 2026, all on Sunday 8 November:

Parade 2026 closure times Streets
Shipston-on-Stour 8.00am to 1.00pm West Street, High Street, Market Place, The Bury, Sheep Street, Church Street, New Street
Stratford-upon-Avon 7.00am to noon The eight streets above
Alcester 10.00am to noon Bleachfield Street, Stratford Road, High Street, Church Street, Henley Street, Meeting Lane, Butter Street
Southam 10.00 to 10.45am; Park Lane to noon Coventry Street, High Street, Park Lane
Studley 10.00am to 12.30pm New Road, Pool Road, High Street, Station Road, Alcester Road and others
Henley-in-Arden 10.30am to noon Beaudesert Lane
Tanworth-in-Arden 10.30 to 11.30am Vicarage Hill, Well Lane, The Green
Snitterfield 10.30 to 11.30am White Horse Hill

Shipston’s closure is longer than last year’s (9am to noon in 2025, per the 2025 list). Bidford-on-Avon, which closed its High Street and Bidford Bridge for its parade in 2025, has no Remembrance entry on the 2026 list. That may mean no road closure rather than no parade; Bidford has not published its own arrangements, so check locally before assuming either way.

What to watch for

Everything for Stratford is now published. The one gap is Bidford-on-Avon, which has no closure on the 2026 list; this page will add it if Bidford publishes its own arrangements before Sunday.