The route for the Tour of Britain race has been unveiled as the world-renown event returns to Nottinghamshire in September. It has previously attracted more than 250,000 spectators and is expected to be just as popular this year.
Nottinghamshire will be the fifth stage in the cycling race, which starts in Aberdeen on Sunday, September 4 and finishes on the Isle of Wight seven days later. Competitors will also make use of the newly-opened £49m Colliery Way bypass.
The race will begin in West Bridgford before competitors head south into Ruddington and East Leake. The route then diverts towards Cropwell Bishop before continuing on to Radcliffe-on-Trent and Lowdham.
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From Lowdham competitors will be sent to Burton Joyce, through Arnold and Calverton and up to Ravenshead. After travelling to Southwell the route will continue north towards Tuxford and Retford, before looping back down towards Mansfield via Worksop and Budby.
The tour will begin on Central Avenue in West Bridgford and finish on Chesterfield South in Mansfield. The race was last hosted in Nottinghamshire in 2018.
Rushcliffe Borough Council’s cabinet portfolio holder for communities and climate change, councillor Abby Brennan, said: "We’re so pleased that the tour will be coming back to Rushcliffe and Nottinghamshire, it’s sure to be another wonderful spectacle that our communities and residents can embrace.
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“We can’t wait to give it another warm and rapturous reception as it races through so many of our towns and villages. We saw with the 2018 race here the incredible welcome Rushcliffe people gave to the riders, and this will be another great celebration that boosts many local businesses and will be a day for all to enjoy."
More about the tour can be read here. The race will return to the county on September 8.
