Confirmed for 8 Nov: the Mayor sees off the St Albans parade on St Peter's Street at 10.30am, service 10.50am, silence 11am. Harpenden 10.35am; cathedral on 11 Nov.

Remembrance Sunday falls on Sunday 8 November 2026. St Albans City and District Council has confirmed the arrangements: at 10.30am the Mayor, Councillor Matt Fisher, sees off a parade along St Peter’s Street to the War Memorial near St Peter’s Church, where the service starts at 10.50am and the two-minute silence is at 11am. Everyone is welcome. Harpenden Town Council has already confirmed its 2026 parade: it moves off from Rothamsted Park at 10.35am for the 10.50am service at the War Memorial on Church Green.

The quick answer

Updated 2 November: St Albans City and District Council has published its 2026 arrangements, with the 10.30am parade, the 10.50am service and the names of those leading the readings and wreath-laying.

St Albans: how the morning runs

The Mayor of St Albans City and District, Councillor Matt Fisher, leads the event, joined by leaders of the major faiths, honorary aldermen and councillors from the county, district, town and parish councils. He will be accompanied by his Macebearer, both in their official robes.

At 10.30am the Mayor sees off the parade, which walks along St Peter’s Street to the War Memorial near St Peter’s Church. It includes the Royal British Legion, air, sea and army cadets, the Guiding and Scout movements, the police and other uniformed services.

The service begins at 10.50am, conducted by the Revd Mark Dearnley of St Peter’s Church. A bugler plays the Last Post, followed by the two-minute silence at 11am. Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet of St Albans Masorti Synagogue reads from the Hebrew Scriptures; Akhtar Zaman DL, President of the St Albans Islamic Centre, reads from the Holy Qur’an; and a representative of the St Alban and St Stephen Catholic Church reads from the New Testament.

Wreath-laying is led by Dr John Howie, Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, followed by the Mayor, Daisy Cooper, MP for St Albans, and representatives of Herts Fire and Rescue, the police and ambulance services and other groups. After the National Anthem there is a procession to a saluting stand, where the Mayor takes the salute of the parade.

Councillor Fisher, who served as an officer in the Fleet Air Arm, said: “This is an occasion when our whole community comes together to pay their respects to our war dead. Having served in our armed services as an officer in the Fleet Air Arm, I am proud to be leading this year’s commemorative event. We will be recognising the huge debt we owe to the men and women who defended our country and the freedoms we enjoy. We must always remember them.”

He also urged people “to give generously to this year’s Poppy Appeal to help the Royal British Legion carry out the fantastic welfare work it does for our Armed Forces families.”

The Mayor of St Albans in his chain of office with four uniformed air cadets holding Poppy Appeal boxesThe Mayor of St Albans and a Royal British Legion volunteer holding a Poppy Appeal collecting tin

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Hundreds gathered at the memorial last year (Residents turn out in force, St Albans City and District Council, 10 November 2025). The council’s release does not give road closure times for St Peter’s Street; we will add them if it publishes them.

Harpenden: confirmed for 8 November 2026

Harpenden Town Council’s listing is dated 8 November 2026 and gives the two times that matter: the parade moves off from Rothamsted Park at 10.35am, and the service at the War Memorial on Church Green starts at 10.50am. The Mayor lays a wreath on behalf of the town. The listing does not yet give a form-up time in the park or a road closure; in previous years the council’s listings said the parade formed up from 10.15am. Parking for the morning is on our parking page: the town council’s Lydekker car park is free on Sundays.

Two weeks earlier, on Saturday 24 October at 11am, the Royal British Legion holds its ceremony at the same memorial to open the Field of Remembrance and launch the Poppy Appeal.

The villages

Redbourn, Wheathampstead, London Colney, Sandridge and Colney Heath each hold a service at their own memorial, organised by the parish council or the church. None had published 2026 times on its website when we checked on 25 September, and Redbourn Parish Council’s news page still had none on 31 October; most appear in the parish newsletters in late October, and we will add them here.

Armistice Day, Wednesday 11 November

St Albans Cathedral has listed an Armistice Day Act of Remembrance on Wednesday 11 November, from 11am to 11.15am, built around the national two-minute silence at 11am. The cathedral says “all are welcome”; there is no ticket. It is at the cathedral, Sumpter Yard, AL1 1BY (St Albans Cathedral).

Neither the district council nor Harpenden Town Council had published an Armistice Day event for 2026 when we checked on 31 October.

What is still to be confirmed

  • Road closures on St Peter’s Street. The council’s 2026 release confirms the times but not the closures.
  • Harpenden’s form-up time and route detail. The town council usually adds these in early November.
  • Village service times. Late October.