Remembrance Sunday is 8 November 2026: cathedral Requiem at 10am, then the civic service at the war memorial, 11am last year. Field of Remembrance from 31 Oct.
Remembrance Sunday is 8 November 2026. Hereford marks it with a civic parade and service at the war memorial in St Peter’s Square, run by Hereford City Council and led by the Mayor of Hereford. Last year’s service started at 11am, and anyone can go: there is no ticket and no charge.
Is it on this year? The council has not published its 2026 notice yet. We checked its website again on 17 October and its events calendar has nothing listed after 2025. But the council’s own page on civic ceremonies says Remembrance Day “takes place on the nearest Sunday to the 11th of November” every year, and in 2026 that is Sunday 8 November. Expect the same shape as last year; we will add the 2026 times here as soon as the council posts them.
Updated 17 October: Hereford Cathedral has published its 2026 Remembrance programme. The Field of Remembrance opens in the Lady Arbour on Saturday 31 October and the Solemn Requiem is at 10am on Sunday 8 November. Ross-on-Wye’s programme is out too (below). Hereford City Council’s parade times are still unpublished.
What happened last year
Hereford City Council’s listing for the Annual Remembrance Day Parade and Service on Sunday 9 November 2025 said:
- Time: 11am
- Place: the War Memorial, St Peter’s Square, Hereford
- Who parades: local veterans’ organisations, cadet forces, the emergency services and community groups, with wreaths laid at the memorial
- For the public: “Please gather in St. Peter’s Square ahead of the 11am service to observe the two minutes’ silence”
The council’s civic ceremonies page adds that the first wreath is laid by the Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire, or a Deputy Lieutenant, and the second by the Mayor. Since May 2026 the mayor is Cllr Cat Hornsey.
What is confirmed for 2026, and what is not
| Status on 17 October | |
|---|---|
| Date | Sunday 8 November 2026, by the council’s “nearest Sunday” rule |
| Place | War Memorial, St Peter’s Square (the same every year) |
| Service time | Not yet published. It was 11am in 2025 |
| Parade route and assembly point | Not published |
| Road closures | Not published |
| Armistice Day, Wednesday 11 November | The council says a ceremony is held on the day itself; no 2026 time yet |
| Cathedral Requiem | Confirmed: Sunday 8 November, 10am |
| Field of Remembrance | Confirmed: Lady Arbour, 31 October to 12 November |
At the cathedral
Hereford Cathedral published its 2026 Remembrance programme in October. Everyone is welcome, and the outside of the cathedral will be lit red for the period:
- The Royal British Legion Field of Remembrance in the Lady Arbour, open to visit from Saturday 31 October to Thursday 12 November
- Afternoon Music with Peter Dyke on the Father Willis organ, Saturday 7 November at 3.15pm. Free, with a retiring collection
- Remembrance Sunday Solemn Requiem for the Fallen and Act of Remembrance, Sunday 8 November at 10am, with music by Duruflé. That is an hour before the civic service at the war memorial if it keeps last year’s 11am start
Last year the Field of Remembrance ran from 4 to 12 November and the Requiem was also at 10am, so the 2026 field opens four days earlier.
Remembrance in Ross-on-Wye
Ross-on-Wye Town Council has published its full 2026 Remembrance programme. On Sunday 8 November the parade leaves the Police Station at 10.30am for the War Memorial at the Prospect, under the command of the Ross and Monmouth Sea Cadets. The service of commemoration and wreath-laying is at 10.55am, followed by the Remembrance Sunday service at St Mary’s, expected to start at about 11.30am. Earlier dates in the programme:
- Thursday 22 October, 10am: Poppy Appeal launch
- Saturday 24 October, 11am: the Garden of Remembrance opens at the Royal British Legion planter in Broad Street
- Thursday 5 November, from 11.45am: commemorations in St Mary’s Churchyard and at the Prospect for Chelsea Hospital, Korea and the Falklands
- Saturday 7 November, 10.30am: Brampton Abbots Remembrance Service, then a service at the Greytree Memorial, First Avenue
Walford holds its own Remembrance Sunday service at St Michael’s Church at 10.50am.
Getting there and parking
St Peter’s Square is at the eastern end of the city centre, by Shire Hall and St Peter’s Church, a short walk from High Town. Buses use the stops around the square. Neither the council nor the bus operators have published any 2026 road closures or diversions for the parade yet; we will add them here when they are, and they will also appear on our Hereford roadworks and travel page.
For city centre car parks, tariffs and free periods, see our parking in Hereford page. The cathedral is a short walk from the war memorial if you plan to go to both services.
The weekend before
The St Michael’s Hospice fireworks run at Hereford Racecourse the night before, on Saturday 7 November. Our Hereford fireworks page has the times and prices, and the What’s On in Hereford this month page has everything else on that weekend.
Sources: Hereford City Council, Remembrance Day Parade and Service (2025 listing) and Civic Ceremonial Events; Hereford Cathedral, Remembrance 2025 and Remembrance 2026; Ross-on-Wye Town Council, Remembrance Events 2026. Council pages rechecked 17 October 2026.
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