Dunorlan Park tickets are on sale: £11 an adult in advance until 30 October, for an 18-minute movie pyromusical on Sat 7 November. Benenden is £8 that night.
Two firework displays in this borough have confirmed dates for 2026, and both are on the same night: Saturday 7 November. Royal Tunbridge Wells Round Table runs its charity display at Dunorlan Park, and Benenden Bonfire Society runs its bonfire and fireworks in the field by Benenden School’s main entrance.
Bonfire Night itself falls on Thursday 5 November 2026. Neither display is on it, which is normal here: both organisers use the Saturday after.
The third event people ask about is not happening. The Hawkhurst Gang Bonfire Society is not holding its bonfire and fireworks in 2026 at all.
Updated 3 October: Dunorlan tickets are now on sale at £11 an adult in advance, cheaper than 2025, and this year’s display is an 18-minute movie-themed pyromusical. Benenden tickets went on sale on 1 October at £8 an adult.
Dunorlan Park, Saturday 7 November
Royal Tunbridge Wells Round Table’s own site now carries the full 2026 listing (Dunorlan Fireworks): site open 5.30pm, fireworks at 7pm, event ends 7.30pm.
This year’s display is different. Round Table calls it a “Movie Themed Pyro-Musical Spectacular” and its “first-ever Pyromusical Fireworks Display”: an 18-minute show fired to film scores, by Wizards Fireworks (the organiser’s spelling). In 2025 the fireworks were by Frontier Fireworks.
Tickets are on sale through Tito, at ti.to/round-table/dunorlan-park-fireworks-2026. Advance prices:
| Ticket | Advance price |
|---|---|
| Adult (over 16) | £11.00 |
| Child (5 to 15) | £7.00 |
| Under 5 | Free |
| Family 1 (2 adults and 1 child, or 1 adult and 2 children) | £24.00 |
| Family 2 (2 adults and 2 children) | £30.00 |
Advance prices end at midnight on Friday 30 October, after which Round Table says “prices will increase”. It has not said by how much. The advance adult price is £1.50 below 2025’s £12.50, and the child price is £1.50 below 2025’s £8.50. Carers get in free on showing a DLA, PIP or ESA award to the gate marshals.
- Live music from Mint DJs, a performance by Rock Choir, a licensed bar run by Framptons at pub prices, food vendors, LED glow toys, first aid, toilets and an accessible viewing area.
- No sparklers, no drones, and no alcohol brought in.
- Download your ticket to your phone wallet or print it before you arrive. The ticket page warns that the site has crashed or slowed at the gate in past years, and anyone who cannot show a valid ticket will not be let in.
The display is watched from the hill opposite the firing area, with the fireworks reflecting off the lake. Proceeds go to local charities and causes: Round Table says the 2024 display raised £35,000.
Parking and getting in
This is the detail that catches people out, and the organisers are blunt about it. There is no general parking at the park.
- Entrances are on Pembury Road and Bayhall Road (opposite Camden Park). Every other park entrance is closed on the night.
- A limited number of accessible spaces are available in the Pembury Road car park, first come first served. Cars must be in before 5.30pm and cannot leave until spectators have cleared the park after the display.
- Everyone else is asked to walk, or to use council car parks. Crescent Road (TN1 2LU) is about a 15 minute walk.
- Pembury Road is closed to traffic for a period after the display so the crowd can get out safely.
Council car park charges, night rates and which car parks take RingGo are on our parking in Tunbridge Wells page. If you are driving in from outside the town, check roadworks and travel first: this borough has had long-running gas and resurfacing closures through the autumn.
Benenden, Saturday 7 November
Benenden Bonfire Society has published a full 2026 listing (Benenden Bonfire & Fireworks), and its timings are already fixed (event information):
- Gates open 5.30pm. Food and drink on sale from 5.30pm, card or cash.
- Bonfire lit 6.30pm. Fireworks 7pm. The society says all times are approximate.
- The site is the field by the main school entrance, TN17 4ES.
- Entertainment, a barbecue, and a licensed bar with real ale and soft drinks.
- Tickets are on sale online through TicketSource, linked from the society’s home page: £8 an adult and £4 a child aged 15 and under. The society asks people to buy in advance.
Two warnings from the organisers. There is absolutely no parking at Benenden School, and no access to the school during the event. You may drop people at the main gates, but the car then has to be parked in the village, so allow time to walk back. And the field gets wet: they ask people to wear boots. No personal sparklers or fireworks.
New for 2026: to comply with Martyn’s Law, the society will scan every ticket (“no ticket, no entry”) and check bags at the gate. Leave the bag at home if you can, as it slows entry. Phone signal in the field is very poor, so check the website before you set off rather than trying to reach the organisers on the night.
Refunds are only given if the event is cancelled. If it is cancelled the society will email online ticket buyers and update its website and social accounts, so no notice means it is going ahead.
Hawkhurst is not running in 2026
The Hawkhurst Gang Bonfire Society, which revived the village’s torchlit procession and bonfire in 2012, has stood 2026 down. Its own site says the bonfire and fireworks “will be in 2027 - we are have a ‘Glastonbury style year off to let the grass grow’” (Hawkhurst Gang Bonfire Society).
That wording is the society’s own, typo included. The King George V ground on The Moor, TN18 4QB, is the usual site, and the society ran a summer party there on 29 August. If you were planning on the procession and the funfair this November, they are not happening.
What is still to be confirmed
- Dunorlan’s price after 30 October. Round Table says prices rise after the advance window but has not published the on-the-night figures.
- Road closures. Neither organiser has published a formal closure order for 2026. Kent County Council’s notices for this borough appear on the Public Notice Portal, and we track the live ones on our roadworks page.
This page will be updated when each of those lands.
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