No town bonfire this year. Mead Open Farm at Billington fires at 6.30pm on Saturday 7 November, £20.50; the High Street gets free fireworks on 27 November.

Bonfire night 2026 falls on Thursday 5 November. There is no public bonfire or fireworks display in Leighton Buzzard itself, and there has not been one since 2019. The nearest display is ticketed: Mead Open Farm at Billington, just south of the town, fires at 6.30pm on Saturday 7 November.

Updated 25 September 2026: this page originally said the only fireworks announced near the town were on Christmas lights night. That was wrong. Mead Open Farm had already published its 7 November display, and it is now listed below.

The quick answer

  • No town bonfire or fireworks in Leighton Buzzard on or around 5 November.
  • Mead Open Farm, Billington: Saturday 7 November, fireworks at 6.30pm, £20.50 a head (£16.50 for members), last entry 5pm.
  • Free fireworks over the High Street on Friday 27 November, after the 7pm Christmas lights switch-on.

Mead Open Farm, Saturday 7 November

Mead Open Farm on Stanbridge Road, Billington, LU7 9JH, runs what it calls its “annual, sell-out Family Fireworks & Farm Fun evening” on Saturday 7 November 2026. The farm’s own event page gives these details: (Mead Open Farm, Fireworks and Farm Fun)

  • The farm opens for the event at 2pm and it ends at 8pm. Last entry is 5pm; anyone arriving after 5pm is turned away.
  • From 5.45pm visitors move to the fireworks field, a short distance from the main entrance. The display is scheduled for 6.30pm, and the farm says timings may change.
  • Tickets are £20.50 per person, or £16.50 for annual members, who must still pre-book. The farm says the event sells out, so book ahead.
  • The ticket includes the floodlit outdoor play, the indoor play (in timed sessions), the animal barns and a disco after the display. Food and drink are sold on site.

This is a paid farm event rather than a town display, and it is the only November fireworks night we have found announced near Leighton Buzzard. It sits on the Saturday after bonfire night.

Why the town has no display

That is not a guess. It is what the organisers of the last one say themselves.

The town’s display ended in 2019

The Rotary Club of Leighton Linslade ran Leighton Buzzard’s bonfire night event. When it launched a laser light show on the High Street in 2023, its own announcement described the show as a replacement “of the fireworks last possible in 2019”, and gave the reasons: cost, insurance, the environmental impact and the risk of a weather cancellation. (Leighton Linslade Rotary Club)

The laser show ran in 2023 and 2024. It was then dropped, with the club citing the escalating cost of putting on a free event.

There is no sign of it returning in 2026. Two checks on the club’s own website, made on 4 September 2026:

  • Its Community Activities page lists what the club currently organises: the May Day Fayre, Carols in the High Street on Christmas Eve, the Santa Float, the Brain of Leighton Buzzard quiz and the President’s tea party. No bonfire, no fireworks, no laser show.
  • Its news page carries nothing about a November event. The most recent item is dated 9 August 2026.

The pub display is not listed either

The Grove Lock at Grove, LU7 0QU, has run a ticketed fireworks night in aid of Linslade Middle and Cedars Upper schools. Its dedicated fireworks page now returns a “page not found”, and the pub’s own events feed returns zero events. Nothing is announced for 2026.

Dunstable’s display has no 2026 date

Dunstable Town Cricket Club at Lancot Park, Totternhoe, LU6 1QP, has held a fireworks night in past years. Its website still contains a page titled “Fireworks Night”, but the page renders as a 2023 cricket fixture, so it carries no date, time or ticket price for this year. (Dunstable Town Cricket Club)

Where the fireworks actually are

The one free firework display announced in Leighton Buzzard this season is on Friday 27 November, over the High Street, immediately after the Christmas lights are switched on at 7pm. It is free to watch, and it is confirmed on the town council’s own event page. (Leighton-Linslade Town Council)

Full timings, the market hours and the parking warning are on our Christmas lights switch-on page. The short version: the West Street multi-storey car park shuts at 7pm, which is the exact minute the lights go on, and it charges £8.50 to anyone locked in.

If a display is announced

Village and club displays in this area tend to be confirmed in the second half of October, and several sit on the weekend either side of the 5th rather than on the night. This page is checked and updated through October and early November. If you organise a display near Leighton Buzzard, Linslade, Heath and Reach, Stanbridge or Eggington, tell us and we will list it.

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