Saltford Remembrance Sunday 2025
This year’s Remembrance Sunday commemorations will take place on the morning of Sunday 9 November 2025.
Saltford Parish Council (SPC) would like to once again extend its sincere thanks to the 1st Saltford Scouts for leading the organisation of this year’s Remembrance Sunday commemorations, and to all their volunteer marshals for their contributions on the day.
Their planning and dedication ensure the village can pay its respects in a meaningful way.
Sincere thanks are also extended to St Mary’s Church, Saltford4Nature, former SPC Councillors Chris W and Rob T, and everyone else involved (see below) for their valued contributions.
Parade and Service at St Mary’s Church
Each year, members of the 1st Saltford Scouts and Saltford District Guides & Brownies parade from the green in front of Saltford Hall (Broadway) to St Mary’s Church.
After the church service, the parade will be joined by local dignitaries. The parade will continue from the Church along the High Street to the War Memorial, where many residents will have already gathered.
A short service followed by the national silence at 11am will then take place.
SPC Chair Jon Godfrey will lay a wreath on behalf of the Saltford community, as we come together to honour and remember.
The parade then returns to Saltford Hall to disperse.
Members of the public are welcome to walk alongside the parade. However, due to limited capacity, the church service itself is reserved for those in the parade.
St Mary’s Church plans to live stream the service into the Church Hall (at Queen Square), allowing residents to watch indoors. More information about St Mary’s Church is available on their website.
Photo taken 2024 at Saltford’s War Memorial
Remembrance Sunday timings – Sunday 9 November 2025
- ~9:30am – Parade departs from Saltford Hall (Broadway) to St Mary’s Church (Queen’s Square)
- ~10:00am – Memorial service at St Mary’s Church (parade participants and community representatives only)
- The public may join via live stream in the church hall (TBC) or wait in the churchyard (please note uneven ground and prepare for adverse weather conditions)
- ~10:45am – Parade proceeds from St Mary’s to the War Memorial
- ~11:00am – Act of Remembrance at the War Memorial, including Last Post and wreath laying (SPC Chair Cllr Jon Godfrey will lay a wreath on behalf of residents)
- ~11:15am – 11:30am – Parade returns to Saltford Hall and disperses
Road Closures
Road closures will be in effect on the morning of Sunday 9 November for the parade route. Please find a copy of B&NES Council’s temporary road closure notice below and downloadable as a PDF here:
B&NES Council’s Temporary Road Closure notice, download a copy here or view B&NES Council’s Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders webpage
We kindly ask drivers to avoid roads in the immediate Broadway area from 9:15am, and the parade route from 9:30am to 11:30am. This is for the safety of participants, especially the young people involved.
Marshals will be present throughout all road closures and will accompany the parade.
Details of road closures are provided below and is also be available via B&NES Council’s Temporary Traffic Regulation Notices.
- Estimated closure time: 9:30am – 11:30am
- Affected roads: Wedmore Road, Broadway, Stratton Road, Norman Road, Beech Road and the High Street between Saltford Hall and St Mary’s Church.
- Marshals will be on duty throughout. They will be wearing hi-vis clothing. Road barriers will also be in use.
Photo above shows ‘Advance warning’ sign to expect delays road sign on Beech Road
Advance notice to expect delays signs have been put in place by B&NES Council (the Highways Authority) ahead of Remembrance Sunday. Image above taken on Beech Road in late October.
Saltford Parish Council was pleased to award a grant to 1st Saltford Scouts in 2025 of £500, to support the purchase of road closure barriers and signage. Please see below for some of the items purchased, these will be used in 2025 and for future Remembrance Sunday commemorations.
Image of street furniture purchased by the Saltford Scouts using SPC grant funding, ahead of Remembrance commemorations in 2025
Thanks to all those who have contributed to the village’s Remembrance commemorations
SPC is grateful to St Mary’s Church, Saltford Guides, all uniformed youth groups, residents, volunteers and marshals who contribute to the village’s Remembrance Sunday arrangements. Your efforts each year enable our community to come together to honour those who served.
Thank you also to the Rev’d Nigel and all those at St Mary’s Church, Saltford. The Remembrance Day service will be livestreamed to the Church Hall (Queen Square) for those who wish to attend. Those in the parade will attend the service in the church itself.
We also appreciate the work of Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Parks team, who ensure that flower beds by Saltford’s War Memorial and at Saltford Memorial Garden are well maintained for this significant occasion.
Local volunteer group Saltford4Nature have once again supported B&NES Council in caring for the beds by the Saltford Memorial Garden (by the Manor Road / A4 Bath Road junction). They organised tidy-up and replanting sessions during October, please see image below as taken at Saltford Memorial Garden.
Saltford4Nature are keen to add more volunteers to their group, so that they can expand their work around the village. To find out more about Saltford4Nature and their valuable work in the village, please email: Saltford4Nature@gmail.com
Saltford4Nature volunteers on 23 October 2025, tending B&NES Council’s beds at Saltford Memorial Garden. A second session to tend the Memorial Gardens will take place on Saturday 25 October.
‘After’ photo taken by Saltford4Nature, showing their work in late October clearing the beds of weeds and tidying up the plants.
Ahead of Remembrance Sunday 2025, former SPC Councillors Chris W and Rob T kindly volunteered their time and skills to repaint the lettering on SPC’s War Memorial Railings. The railings were originally updated by Saltford Parish Council in 2018 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I – a project that both Chris and Rob helped deliver during their time on the Parish Council. A big thank you to them both for helping keep this important local landmark looking its best in time for this year’s Remembrance commemorations. The photo below shows the Saltford War Memorial railings ‘before’ (taken 15 October) and ‘after’ (28 October) following the gold lettering having been repainted.
Former SPC Cllrs Chris W (right) and Rob T (left) re-painting the lettering on SPC’s War Memorial railings on 27 October, ahead of the village’s Remembrance Sunday commemorations
‘Before’ photo (15 Oct) – the lettering looks a bit streaky as SPC’s railings had just been cleaned!
‘After’ photo – taken 28 October, the day after the railings were painted.
Saltford War Memorial and Saltford’s wartime history
Information about Saltford’s War Memorial and the names of those who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars can be found on SPC’s ‘Local History’ page under the ’20th Century’ section:
https://www.saltfordparishcouncil.gov.uk/our-village/history-of-saltford/
The Saltford Scouts have organised Remembrance Sunday commemorations in Saltford for many years. For recent events, view SPC’s article from last year ‘Remembrance Sunday in Saltford: 10 November 2024‘. A series of photos from Saltford’s 2023 Remembrance events can be viewed in SPC’s article Saltford Remembers – Remembrance Sunday 2023 in Pictures.
For VE Day 80 in May 2025, the Saltford Community Association compiled a booklet titled: ‘WARTIME MEMORIES FROM SALTFORD RESIDENTS IN 2020 & 2025‘ – a copy can be found on Saltford Environment Group’s website.
Playing the “Last Post” is a long-held tradition in Saltford for Remembrance Sunday, as in villages and towns throughout the country. Visit the Saltford Environment Group’s page Remembrance Sundays at Saltford: “The Last Post” to find out more about this important part of the Act of Remembrance in Saltford. This page on SEG’s website as added last year includes recordings of ‘The Long Reveille’ and ‘the Last Post’ as played by a Saltford resident and Ex-serviceman played his bugle at Saltford’s Remembrance Commemorations from c.2001 to 2014. The recording was taken in 2010.
For an overview of 20th century Saltford, including about the War Memorial and wartime Saltford, view ’20th Century’ on SPC’s ‘History of Saltford‘ page.
For more detailed information about Saltford in World War I and World War II, please visit the Saltford Environment Group’s Online Museum page as dedicated to this part of the village’s history.
Further Commemorations in Bath & North East Somerset
Alongside Saltford’s Remembrance Sunday commemorations, services and parades will take place across Bath, Keynsham, and other parts of North East Somerset on both Remembrance Sunday (9 November) and Remembrance Day (11 November).
Details shared by B&NES Council are now available for those wishing to attend other local services. Please also view B&NES Council’s ‘Newsroom’ page which has details.
Bath Abbey will be holding their annual Remembrance Service at 2pm on Sunday 9 November. Please view B&NES Council’s Bath Abbey Remembrance Service page for details.
Remembrance Sunday and Remembrance Day road closures can be found on B&NES’s council website
Join a Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday event in B&NES – Press release from B&NES Council (added 3 November 2025):
Communities across Bath and North East Somerset will come together to honour those who served and sacrificed during Remembrance events on November 9 and November 11.
Remembrance events in B&NES include:
Ceremonies and Services in Bath
Sunday 9 November (Remembrance Sunday)
- Royal Victoria Park War Memorial – 11:00am: Royal British Legion Wreath Laying Ceremony.
- St Bartholomew’s Church – 11:00am – Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Memorial Garden.
- The Guildhall – 1:29pm: Royal British Legion Remembrance Sunday Parade. March Past and Salute Taking followed by a Civic Procession to Bath Abbey for the Remembrance Service at 2:00pm.
- Weston & Newbridge War Memorial – 11:00am – Wreath Laying Ceremony
Tuesday 11 November (Remembrance Day)
- Abbey Church Yard – 11:00am: Act of Remembrance including a two-minute silence
- Haycombe Cemetery– 10:45am: Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Bereavement Services’ Remembrance Day Service, with refreshments afterwards in the Hilltop Chapel.
- Holy Trinity Church, Combe Down – 10:00am: Service. 11:00am: Bath Branch Grenadier Guards Association Wreath Laying Ceremony.
- Royal Victoria Park War Memorial – 11:00am: Service by the Rector of St Michael’s Church.
- Twerton War Memorial – 11:00am: Wreath Laying Ceremony
Ceremonies and Services in North East Somerset
Sunday 9 November (Remembrance Sunday)
- Compton Dando – 10:00am: Café Church at St Mary’s in Compton Dando followed by Remembrance ceremony at the war memorial at 11:00am
- High Littleton and Hallatrow – 9.30am: Remembrance Service at Holy Trinity, High Littleton
- Keynsham – 09:25am: Service at St Johns’ Church. 10:30am: Parade along High Street to Memorial Gates for a Remembrance Service at 11:00am
- Midsomer Norton – 10:40am: Parade from West Clewes Recreation Ground through the High Street to the War Memorial. 10:48am: non-denominational service at the War Memorial followed by a two-minute silence and wreath laying
- Paulton – 2.30pm: Remembrance Parade to War Memorial on the High Street followed by a service
- Radstock– 2:00pm: Remembrance Parade at the Radstock Memorial
- Saltford – 9.30am: Saltford Scouts and Guides parade from Broadway to St. Mary’s Church (Church service for members of parade only, due to space limitations). 10:45am: Parade from St Mary’s Church to Saltford War Memorial, for Wreath Laying Ceremony. 11am: Last Post. 11:10: Parade from Saltford War Memorial to Broadway
- Stanton Drew – 10:15am: Church service. 10:45am: Act of Remembrance at the War Memorial.
- Westfield – 9:00am: Service at St Peter’s Church. 10:00am: service at Trinity Methodist Church before the congregation moves to the memorial at Westfield at 10:50am for the Act of Remembrance, followed by refreshments in the church
Remembrance Day road closures can be found on the B&NES council website
Avon and Somerset Police will be conducting a police operation on Remembrance Sunday, with officers out on the streets in Bath and engaging with the public. While there is no known risk to public safety, as with any major event, police are asking people to be vigilant and if something doesn’t seem right, speak to officers either in person or call 999.
Image credit: Bath & North East Somerset Council
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