What's On in Aylesbury
Things to do in and around Aylesbury: events, days out and family activities, with the practical details.
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Aylesbury Ice Rink: Chiltern View Opens 20 Nov, From £10
Chiltern View's real-ice rink at Stoke Mandeville opens Fri 20 November and runs to 5 January. Skating from £10, skates included, Santa on five December days.
Dates for the diary
- On now to 21 Feb The SAXONS exhibition
- On now to 8 Nov Neuroverse Artist Collective: The Founder's Journey
- On now to 31 Oct Pick Your Own Pumpkins at Peterley Manor Farm
- On now to 31 Oct Spooky Season and Pumpkin Picking at Lillingstone
- On now to 31 Oct Pumpkin picking at Lillingstone
- On now to 30 Oct Twilight Nights at Lillingstone
- Tue 20 Oct Buckingham street market
- Tue 20 Oct Books and Boogie
- Tue 20 Oct Arsenal Legends
- Tue 20 Oct The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town
- 21 Oct to 29 Nov Standing with Giants: D-Day 1476, For Your Tomorrow
- Wed 21 Oct Waterside Singers
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Aylesbury
Aylesbury Christmas Market: Market Square Sunday 13 December
Aylesbury's Christmas market is the Sunday Market's Christmas Edition, 11am to 4pm on 13 December in Market Square. Plus six more festive fairs nearby.
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Aylesbury Santa's Grotto: Hogshaw Farm From 28 Nov, £29.95
Hogshaw Farm's Father Christmas opens weekends from 28 November, £29.95 a child. Mead Open Farm from 5 December. What is confirmed near Aylesbury so far.
Halloween
Aylesbury Halloween 2026: Pumpkin Farms, Free Day 29 Oct
Pumpkin patches open every weekend, Hogshaw Farm's wizard school runs 24 to 31 Oct from £15.95, a free town centre day on the 29th and fireworks on the 31st.
Wendover
Wendover Christmas lights: Saturday 28 November, 5pm
Wendover's Christmas Celebration and lights switch-on is on Saturday 28 November 2026, 5pm to 8pm on Manor Waste, High Street, with stalls, food and drink.
Events
What's On in Aylesbury: Half Term, Fireworks, Lights 22 Nov
Free Halloween day in town on 29 October, Buckingham's free fireworks on the 31st, and Christmas on the Cobbles with the lights and parade on 22 November.
Waddesdon
Waddesdon Manor Christmas 2026: No Christmas Event This Year
Christmas at Waddesdon is paused for 2026 during conservation work and returns in 2027. On instead: a 4 to 6 December makers fair and November dusk openings.
Remembrance
Aylesbury Remembrance Sunday: 8 November in Market Square
Remembrance Sunday is 8 November 2026. Aylesbury's service is in Market Square, 10.45am last year; Buckingham's parade leaves Market Hill with road closures.
Aylesbury
Aylesbury Christmas lights switch-on: 22 Nov, parade 5pm
Christmas on the Cobbles is Sunday 22 November: funfair and stage from noon, the parade at 5pm, then lights and fireworks. Free, with an afterparty to 8.30pm.
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Aylesbury Waterside Theatre panto: Sleeping Beauty, 4 Dec
Sleeping Beauty runs at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre from 4 December 2026 to 3 January 2027. Laura Main and Andy Collins star, cheapest seats £15.60 today.
Aylesbury
Aylesbury Fireworks 2026: Buckingham 31 Oct, Brill 7 Nov
Buckingham's free bonfire is 6pm to 8pm on Saturday 31 October. Brill's is Saturday 7 November, Thomley's quiet display 24 October, Aylesbury's 22 November.
Buckingham
Buckingham Christmas lights: Thursday 26 November, 4pm
Buckingham's lights go on outside the Old Gaol from 4pm on Thursday 26 November 2026, with carols and stalls. The 12 December parade has been cancelled.