Saturday, 29th November 2025 — 5pm – 7pm // ✨ Lighting of the Stambourne Christmas Tree! ✨ Come and celebrate with us at the very first Stambourne Christmas Lights Switch-On at the Village Hall from 5pm! Bring your family, friends, and festive cheer—there’ll be plenty to enjoy, including: 🎄 Christmas carols 🥧 Mince pies & sausage rolls 🍷 Mulled wine, hot chocolate, tea & coffee 🍬 Sweet stall 🎨 Christmas bauble painting 🎭 Face painting 🎟️ Tombola. It’s the perfect way to bring our community together and kick off the Christmas season in true Stambourne style. We’d love to see you there!
Come and celebrate with us at the very first Stambourne Christmas Lights Switch-On at the Village Hall.
Step into the Christmas magic on Saturday, 29th November 2025 from 5pm!
Bring your family, friends, and festive cheer—there’ll be plenty to enjoy, including:
🥧 Mince pies & sausage rolls
🍷 Mulled wine, soft drinks, hot chocolate, tea & coffee
🍬 Sweet stall
🎄 Christmas carols
🎨 Christmas bauble painting
🎭 Face painting
🎟️ Tombola

Everybody welcome. Round up your friends and family and make a day of it!
When
Saturday, 29th November 2025 — 5pm – 7pm
Where
Stambourne Village Hall, Church Road, Stambourne CO9 4NP.
Cost
FREE ADMISSION!
We look forward to seeing you there!

Saturday, 29th November 2025 — 5pm – 7pm // ✨ Lighting of the Stambourne Christmas Tree! ✨ Come and celebrate with us at the very first Stambourne Christmas Lights Switch-On at the Village Hall from 5pm! Bring your family, friends, and festive cheer—there’ll be plenty to enjoy, including: 🎄 Christmas carols 🥧 Mince pies & sausage rolls 🍷 Mulled wine, hot chocolate, tea & coffee 🍬 Sweet stall 🎨 Christmas bauble painting 🎭 Face painting 🎟️ Tombola. It’s the perfect way to bring our community together and kick off the Christmas season in true Stambourne style. We’d love to see you there!
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“Stambourne is probably as secluded a village as you can find within 50 miles of London” – Nicholas Enticknap
Welcome to the most comprehensive resource on Stambourne, a village in rural North Essex, UK.
Here you will find the live weather in Stambourne, our events calendar, ideas on what to do in the area, lots of information on the history of the village, what’s happening and almost 10 years of the Stambourne Newsletter, the village’s bi-monthly printed newsletter. There are also lots of photos of the village as it is now as well as in times gone by.
“Stambourne is probably as secluded a village as you can find within 50 miles of London” – Nicholas Enticknap
Welcome to the most comprehensive resource on Stambourne, a village in rural North Essex, UK.
Here you will find the live weather in Stambourne, our events calendar, ideas on what to do in the area, lots of information on the history of the village, what’s happening and almost 10 years of the Stambourne Newsletter, the village’s bi-monthly printed newsletter. There are also lots of photos of the village as it is now as well as in times gone by.




