Field of Remembrance 2026
Visit the field of scarlet poppies and memorials which will blanket the Abbey’s grounds this November to remember loved ones lost serving in the Armed Forces.
Now in its 98th year, the Field of Remembrance has been taking place every November since 1928 when The Poppy Factory took a group of disabled veterans, a tray of poppies and a collecting tin to the grounds of St Margaret's Church at the Abbey.
Only a handful of poppies were planted around a single cross, but it began a tradition that has grown over the decades and now tens of thousands of poppies on wooden crosses and tributes are planted every year.
Remembrance Sunday service
The annual Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving will be held in the Abbey at 10:50am on Sunday 8th November and will be streamed live.
