That Christmas has a place to happen. London Christmas Village is a two-hour experience on Shepherd’s Bush Green, made for families with children aged 2 to 10, where every face you meet is in character and Dickensian dress. It’s lantern-lit, wooden and frost-edged — and the moment you walk in, the noise of the season falls away. This is the Christmas that came before everything got faster.
What that means in practice:
You arrive in a small group of twenty, check in, and collect your lanyard. The first part of your visit is guided, step by step. After that, the village is yours for as long as you like.
A lamplit row of Victorian houses where modern London falls away. At the door of No. 41, you are welcomed inside.
Inside No. 41, the walls come alive around you and your family steps straight into the secret story of Father Christmas and the Christmas Mice. By the time you leave, your children are in on something almost no one else knows.
A warm, unhurried room that feels like his own home. Father Christmas shares the story with your group, then each family is invited up in turn for their photograph. Every child leaves holding a token — to be exchanged for a gift at the Toy Stalls on your way out.
A bright, clear-sided yard under one roof: Christmas trees, photo spots, hidden games for sharp-eyed children, and stalls serving hot drinks and warm cookies. Pause here as long as you like.
Day Journey tickets only. 15-minute show.
The mice are behind on the Christmas post, and they need small helpers. A fifteen-minute working visit to the busiest room in the village — and every child leaves with a gift from the mice themselves.
Day Journey tickets only. Big Top show.
The heart of it: the big-top show where the story deepens, a problem appears, and your children are asked to help. We won’t spoil what happens — only that what they carry out isn’t a souvenir. It changes what happens at your house on Christmas Eve.
Now the village is yours. Wander the market chalets, ride the carousel, listen to carollers from the bandstand, or sit with a hot chocolate while your children spot the things you missed. There’s no rush. That’s the whole point.
Near the exit, your child hands over the token from Father Christmas and chooses their gift — the promise from the Lodge, kept.
Dates: 28 November – 23 December 2026
Opening hours: 9am – 9pm daily
Location: Shepherd’s Bush Green, W12, London
Nearest tube: Shepherd’s Bush (Central Line) · Shepherd’s Bush Market (Hammersmith & City and Circle lines)
Good to know: The journey takes around two hours; you’re welcome to stay in the Village Square as long as you like.
Tickets start at £15, and how much of the story you unlock is up to you. Pre-school Journey is shaped for the youngest visitors having their first real Christmas on their guided journey — the Study, Father Christmas, Pudding Yard and a gift. Full Journey adds both shows, each with a gift of its own. Evening Journey gives you the square, the market, carousel, games and the music.
We open on Saturday 28 November with Community Day — free tickets for the families, charities and businesses around the Green, so the people closest to the village experience it first. And on Christmas Eve, when the public season has ended, the village hosts Goodwill Day: a Christmas meal for 200 guests with a local homeless charity, in the tradition of Christmas charity this city gave the world.
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Shepherd’s Bush Green, W12, London Nearest Tube:
Shepherd’s Bush Market (Circle Line)
