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Aylesbury's Christmas market is the Sunday Market's Christmas Edition, 11am to 4pm on 13 December in Market Square. Plus six more festive fairs nearby.
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Events
What's On in Aylesbury: Half Term, Halloween and Fireworks
Free Halloween fun in town on 29 October and Buckingham's free bonfire, 6 to 8pm on the 31st. Steve Hackett seats are back on sale. Every date checked.
Business
Honey Bee Aylesbury Named Marston's Pub of the Year
The Honey Bee on Trenchard Street won Marston's Pub of the Year at the Great British Pub Awards after a £319,000 refit, with £3,350 raised for charity.
Local Info
Aylesbury Roadworks: Blackgrove Shut Again to 8 October
Blackgrove Road at Waddesdon shuts 7am to 7pm on weekdays until 8 October, and Bridgeway in Cuddington goes onto 24-hour lights to 12 October.
Community
Best Kept Village 2026: Three Aylesbury Vale Winners
Aston Abbotts, Whitchurch and Steeple Claydon won cups in the 2026 Buckinghamshire Best Kept Village Competition, Whitchurch for the first time on record.
Buckingham
Buckingham Charter Fair 2026: Town Centre Shut Two Weekends
Buckingham Charter Fair runs on Saturday 17 and Saturday 24 October. Market Hill, Market Square and High Street close from 6am on each Friday before.
Crime
HMP Spring Hill: 12 Absconds in a Year, Two This Month
Thames Valley Police has appealed twice in six days over men who absconded from the open prison near Aylesbury, where monitors logged 12 absconds during 2025.
Waddesdon
Waddesdon Manor Christmas 2026: No Christmas Event This Year
Christmas at Waddesdon is paused for 2026 during conservation work and returns in 2027. On instead: a 4 to 6 December makers fair and November dusk openings.
Remembrance
Aylesbury Remembrance Sunday: 8 November in Market Square
Remembrance Sunday is 8 November 2026. Aylesbury's service is in Market Square, 10.45am last year; Buckingham's parade leaves Market Hill with road closures.
Business
Fitlife Haddenham: Gym's Company in Liquidation, Club Open
Fitlife Health Club Limited went into insolvent liquidation on 17 September. The Haddenham gym is still open, still selling memberships, and keeping the name.
House prices
Buckinghamshire House Prices Fell £9,997 in a Month
The average Buckinghamshire home lost £9,997 in July, a 2% fall in a single month, and annual growth dropped from 4.1% to 1.1%. Flats are the only type down.
Planning
Bierton 36 Homes Backed, with a Fresh Objection Window
Councillors backed up to 36 homes off Barnett Way on 9 September, against 188 objections. A publicity round still to come could turn it into a refusal.
Planning
Bierton 55 Homes: Burcott Lane Plan, Comments Close 7 Oct
Hallam Land wants up to 55 homes on 5.3 hectares off Burcott Lane, Bierton. Comments close on 7 October and officers, not councillors, are expected to decide.
Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire and the largest place in the vale that carries its name. Buckingham, twelve miles north, is the older town and much the smaller one, and between and around them are Wendover under the Chilterns escarpment, Winslow, Haddenham, Waddesdon and a long list of villages that mostly identify with whichever of the two they shop in.
Since 2020 one authority has run the lot. Buckinghamshire Council replaced the county council and the districts, so planning, bins, parking, council tax, roads and schools all now come out of the same building. It publishes the evidence behind those decisions in registers hardly anybody opens. We open them and write down what they say, with a link to the document every time.
Every fact carries a link to the document behind it.