When and where to watch 2025 Remembrance Day services and parades, on November 9, in Newark, Southwell, Bingham, Ollerton, Edwinstowe, Balderton, Coddington, Barnby-in-the-Willows, Collingham, and Bilsthorpe
This weekend towns and villages across the area will come together for the annual Remembrance commemorations.
On Sunday, November 9, moments of silence will be held, memorial services will take place, and communities will gather to watch parades of veterans and serving members of the armed forces.
A number of road closures will also be in effect to accommodate the events.
Newark:
In Newark, the usual Remembrance Sunday arrangements will take on a slightly different format to previous years as the Parish Church and War Memorial gardens remain unavailable due to refurbishment works.
A parade of serving military personnel and veterans, alongside cadets and scouts, will form up at London Road Car Park at 10.30am, before moving off at 10.45am.
The parade will make its way along Baldertongate and into the Market Place where it will form up and await the arrival of the civic procession, led by the Mayor of Newark Barbara Corrigan.
As large groups cannot gather at the war memorial this year, wreaths will instead be laid on the middle section of the Town Hall steps. Standard bearers will make a corridor for wreath layers to walk down as they place their wreaths.
At 11am the Reverend Danny Marshall will lead a short service with hymns, lessons and a short address, and a national two minutes silence will be observed.
The parade will then re-form, complete a loop of the Market Place and perform a march past in front of the Town Hall, before returning to the London Road Car Park.
Musical support will be provided by Newark Town Band and the St Mary's Choir.
A civic reception will be hosted inside the Town Hall, and following the parade, wreaths will be moved to the war memorial.
Road closures will be in place from 7am to protect the route, and will see Cartergate, Baldertongate (from the London Road car park entrance), Barnbygate (from the Methodist Church) and Appletongate (from Mount Street), and the Market Place closed until the parade has finished at approximately 1pm. London Road car park will also be closed to allow the parade to form.
Southwell:
Uniformed groups and dignitaries will begin to form up at the War Memorial on the Burgage, in Southwell, from 10.30am.
Robert Beckett, of Southwell’s Royal British Legion branch, will then welcome attendees before standards are brought to attention and wreaths are laid.
The bells of Southwell Minster will then be rung as the clock strikes 11am, which will be followed by two minutes of silence and prayers led by Rev. Canon Dr. Neil Evans, the interim Dean of Southwell.
A formal parade will then take place, with uniformed groups marching from The Burgage, down King Street, past the Market Place and towards the Minster where a service of Remembrance will then be held.
From 10.30am to 12pm The Burgage and King Street will be temporarily closed to traffic for their whole length, as will Westgate from the Market Place to entrance to Southwell Minster.
Ollerton:
A parade will form up on Sherwood Drive from 10am, and is due to march off at 10.15am, heading along Forest Road, Main Street, and finishing outside the Hop Pole Hotel in Ollerton Village.
The public will then be invited to join standard bearers, civic dignitaries, members of the Royal British Legion, and wreath layers in the War Memorial Gardens, on Newark Road, for a service of commemoration, led by Rev. Richard Hanford.
A number of roads will be closed to traffic from 9.30am to 11.30am.
Traffic will be temporaily stopped from driving along Sherwood Drive (whole length), Forest Road (from junction with Sycamore Road to its junction with Back Lane), Ollerton Road (whole length), Main Street (whole length), Church Street (whole length), Market Place (whole length) and Newark Road (whole length).
Bingham:
Acts of remembrance will be marked in Bingham with a short marching parade from Station Road, which will then forms up at the Market Square.
The parade will include members of the veterans community as well as cadets, scouts and other youth groups.
A temporary war memorial will be erected in the square, where an outdoor service will then be held, including the laying of wreaths.
After the ceremony has concluded, participants and spectators will be invited to attend an indoor service at St Marys and All Saints Parish Church, on Church Street. Wreaths will be relocated the town’s war memorial within the church.
Representatives of the Bingham Churches will conduct the ceremonies, while the parade will be supported by the Bingham Community Big Band, and piper Jim Cook who will play a lament on the bagpipes.
The Market Place, Station Street, and Union Street will be closed to traffic from 10.15am to 11.15am.
Villages:
Many villages will hold their own commemorations to mark Remembrance Sunday.
In Balderton, a parade will assemble at the Balderton Post Office, on Main Street, at 10.15am, before march toward St Giles Church at 10.20am.
Standards will fall out upon arrival, and form a guard of honour for those entering the church for the service, which will be held at 10.50am. A two minute silence will be observed at 11am.
Following the service, the parade will then re-form and march towards the war memorial in front of the Methodist Church, where another service will be held at 11.55am, following by the laying of wreaths.
Main street, from its junction with London Road and Queen Street, will be closed from 10am to 12.30am.
There will be Remembrance services at All Saints’, Coddington, at 10.30am and at All Saints’, Barnby-in-the-Willows, at 6pm on Sunday.
In Edwinstowe, residents and participants will gather at King Edwin school, on Fourth Avenue, from 9.20am.
The parade will then set off at 9.30am and head towards St Mary’s Church where a service will take place at 10am, led by Rev. Claire Melless.
Following the service the parade will then reform and march towards the Memorial Gardens, after which a Roll of Honour will be read ,and two minutes of silence will be observed at 11am.
Wreaths will be laid by all groups, including youth organisations, before the march continues back to King Edwin.
Mansfield Road, Fourth Avenue, Fifth Avenue, West Lane and Ollerton Road will all be closed to traffic throughout proceedings, from 9am to 11.30am.
Collingham will host two simultaneous services at 10.45am, one at the war memorial in All Saints’ Churchyard, on Low Street, and another at Collingham Methodist Church, on High Street.
The village of Bilsthorpe’s service will be held at the Bilsthorpe War Memorial, off Oldbridge Way.
The service is expected to start promptly at 10:40am, led by Rev. Margaret Groves, in time for the national two minute silence at 11am.
This will be followed by the laying of wreaths by community groups and leaders.
There will be some road closures in place prior to, and during the service, on Oldbridge Way and Eakring Road from the roundabout to Church Street junction.