Tour of Britain organisers have announced that the 2022 edition will include a section near Bristol.
It has been announced The Cotswolds will provide the setting for the 169km stage six between Tewkesbury and Gloucester, the same two towns that will host the start and finish of stage three of the Women’s Tour in June.
The Tour of Britain will this year begin and end with hill-top finishes in Aberdeenshire and on the Isle of Wight respectively as they revealed the full route for the eight-day race. The 18th edition of the modern Tour will begin on September 4 with a 185-kilometre stage from Aberdeen to the Glenshee Ski Centre in the Cairngorms National Park, taking on the climb of the Old Military Road, 9.1km long in total with the final five kilometres having an average gradient of 4.8 per cent.
