Bonfire Night: Guy Fawkes fireworks displays in London and across the UK

It's November 5th and unless you are busy preparing your own gunpowder, treason and plot then you may be wondering where you can celebrate Bonfire Night this year.

Luckily, anyone wishing to find a toffee apple or two is not short of options, there are hundreds of events across the country both big and small.



Here Travelmail has outlined six of the best places that will help make your Bonfire Night go with a bang, plus where to find the best of the rest.



Towering celebration: Bonfire Nights is celebrated at dozens of locations across London

London

Where it all began, London has a plethora of events this Bonfire Night both in the centre of the city and in local areas. One of the best sources of information on where to celebrate is www.viewlondon.co.uk, which has an extensive list of events across the capital for both tonight and over the weekend.

Of the most popular events is Battersea Park's display, which this year takes place on Saturday 7th November. The event is to be themed around love, with the fireworks designed by the internationally renowned Pains Fireworks.



Admission to the Battersea celebrations costs £6.00 (with a £1.00 charge for children under 10 years old). Nearest train: Battersea Park or Queenstown. Nearest Tube: Pimlico. For more information visit www.wandsworth.gov.uk.

Devon



Keep on rolling. The Bonfire Night celebrations in Ottery St Mary, Devon

The 5th of November is celebrated in flamboyant style in Ottery St Mary, Devon, which has become famous due to its tradition of carrying flaming tar barrels through the town as part of its annual Bonfire Night celebrations.

The small town, which lies between Exeter and Honiton, has held the event for hundreds of years and many believe it pre-dates the actual Gunpowder Plot itself. Ottery St May remains the only town in the UK which still carries full-sized flaming barrels though the streets. The barrels range in size from small to large so children can get involved too. The event culminates in one giant barrel carrying at midnight.

For more information on the event visit: www.otterytarbarrels.co.uk.

Edinburgh

Edinburgh’s annual Bonfire Night celebrations are a slightly more sedate affair than the barrel-carrying shenanigans on England's South Coast. The city plays host to a frenzy of catherine wheels and bangers at the Meadowbank Stadium, which is the main focus of the evening's celebrations and will showcase Edinburgh's largest firework display of the year. The event will also have a bagpipe performance and entertainment which carries on throughout the evening.



The event opens at 6:30pm with the main proceedings starting at 7:30pm. Tickets are priced at £5. For more information visit: www.edinburghleisure.co.uk.

Lewes



All dressed up: Some of the costumes at the Lewes Bonfire Night

The bonfire celebrations in the Sussex town of Lewes list as the most important event on the town’s calendar.

The main reason for the Bonfire fervour is that the town not only marks the uncovering of the Gunpowder Plot but also the anniversary of the seventeen Protestant martyrs of the town who were executed during the reign of Queen Mary 1 between 1553 and 1558.

Last year the town courted controversy after the bonfire council decided to burn an effigy of newly-elected U.S. President Barack Obama, and this year Alastair Darling, Gordon Brown and key figures from the banking world are likely to go up in smoke.

Expect to see processions of costumed Elizabethans or Vikings along with a carnivale atmosphere of rebellion. Not for the faint-hearted. For more information visit: http://www.lewesbonfirecouncil.org.uk/.

Be careful not to get in the way of the Lewes Bonfire processions, a magistrate who once interfered in the 19th Century was thrown into the river

Liverpool



Liverpool is hosting a free firework event which will see three of the city’s major parks, Sefton, Newsham and Walton Hall light up in time to space-themed music - a reference to the anniversary of the Apollo Moon landings - for an extraterrestrial twist.

The fireworks start at 7.30pm but there is no officially planned bonfire at the parks themselves. For more information on the event visit: http://www.liverpool.gov.uk/

Manchester

Manchester is set to have some of the best bonfire night events in the country this year. Over 100,000 people attended the celebrations last year and admission to any of the council-organised events is free of charge.

Events have been ongoing all week but the main firework display is tonight. The event starts at 7:30pm with the bonfire lit at 8pm.



For more information on the bonfire events across Manchester, visit the Manchester City Council website: http://www.manchester.gov.uk.

The rest of the UK

For more information on bonfire events near you or across the UK visit the Enjoy England website: www.enjoyengland.com.