The organiser now confirms Saturday 12 December 2026, 10am to 4pm, with the village shut to traffic 7am to 5pm and a free park and ride bus until 4.30pm.

The date is now confirmed

Lymm Dickensian Day is on Saturday 12 December 2026, from 10am to 4pm. The organiser’s website now says: “Join us between 10am and 4pm on Saturday 12th December 2026”, with food and drink, arts and craft stalls, Santa’s grotto, the Santa Dash and the Christmas parade, with guest appearances from local schools, steam engines, morris dancers and Father Christmas. (lymm-dickensian.org)

  • When: Saturday 12 December, 10am to 4pm.
  • Where: Lymm village centre, WA13.
  • Road closures: the organiser says the village centre is closed to traffic from 7am to 5pm.
  • Park and ride: free vintage bus from Lymm High School, WA13 0BR, 10am to 4.30pm; the school gates are locked at 5pm.

Updated 20 October: the organiser has confirmed the date and times for 2026. When this page was first written its site still showed last year’s event, and the date came only from lymm.uk’s second-Saturday assumption. The finishing time is now 4pm, an hour earlier than 2025’s 5pm.

What the day looks like

The organiser has not published a 2026 running order yet. Everything below is the 2025 programme, published by lymm.uk and marked there as subject to change. It is a reliable picture of the shape of the day, not a 2026 schedule.

Activity Times Where
Park and ride from Lymm High School 10am to 4.30pm High School to village centre
Stalls 11am to 4.30pm Village centre, Village Hall, LYCC
Santa’s Grotto 10am to 11.30am, 2.30pm to 4pm Village Hall, Pepper Street
Morris dancers 11am to 4.30pm, various Village centre
Punch and Judy 11am to 4.30pm, various Village centre
Santa Dash 1.30pm to 2.30pm Brookfield Road to Eagle Brow to village
The Grand Parade 1.30pm to 2.30pm Brookfield Road to Eagle Brow to village
Best Dressed presentation 2.45pm to 3.30pm Village centre
Canal boat flotilla approx 4.30pm to 5pm Ridgeway Grundy through the village

Three Morris sides take part: Lymm Morris, Earl of Stamford Morris and Bollin Morris. The Santa Dash is organised by Lymm Runners and sets off at the same time as the parade, with participants lining up along Brookfield Road. Lymm Sings performs three slots, in the village centre, the Methodist Church on Eagle Brow and the Golden Fleece. Lymm Concert Band plays at the United Reformed Church from 2pm. Mix 56 has broadcast live from the village centre in recent years.

Hours and closures: what the organiser now says

For 2026 the organiser gives the day as 10am to 4pm, with the village centre closed to traffic from 7am to 5pm. That closure window now matches the 7am start of lymm.uk’s 2025 closure table. Last year the organiser’s own site gave 10am to 5pm and a 9am closure, so the earlier finish is new.

Road closures, 2025 pattern

lymm.uk published the full closure schedule for 2025, in three tiers.

  • 7am to 6pm: Eagle Brow to Lymm Cross, Whitbarrow Road, Bridgewater Street, Henry Street, The Dingle and The Grove
  • 12.30pm to 2.30pm, additionally: Brookfield Road from Whitbarrow Road to Eagle Brow, Maltmans Road, Brookfield Close and the Davies Way exit onto Brookfield Road
  • 1pm to 2.30pm, additionally: the Rectory Lane exit to The Cross, Lymm Bridge, New Road, Dane Bank Road, the Golden Fleece car park exit and The Square. Pepper Street access is via Rectory Lane during this window.

The site warns these are approximate and closures may go in earlier or come off later.

Parking and the free park and ride

Village centre parking is limited, fills early, and some village car parks are not available at all on the day. The free park and ride runs from Lymm High School, Oughtrington Lane, Lymm, WA13 0BR, on a round robin into the village.

The organiser now says the bus runs from 10am until 4.30pm and that the High School gates are locked at 5pm, with vehicles not released until the following day. That matches what lymm.uk published for 2025. Leave the village in good time for the last bus.

Residents living near the High School are also welcome to use the free bus.

For the rest of the borough, our parking in Warrington page covers council car park tariffs, including the three in Lymm village that charge three different amounts for a long stay. Check roadworks and travel before you set off.

Getting there without a car

Lymm is on the Cat5 bus between Warrington and Altrincham, via Thelwall and Warburton. The nearest railway stations are Warrington, Altrincham and Irlam, none of them in the village. By road, leave the M6 at junction 21 or the M56 at junction 9.

What we are waiting on

The 2026 programme, the parade time and the road closure order. lymm.uk says the organiser’s Facebook page carries last-minute changes. We will update this page as each is published.

More of the season: things to do in Warrington.

Checked 3 September 2026; updated 20 October 2026 from the organiser’s site.