The final leg of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Queen’s Baton Relay route has been unveiled, and it will pass through five Manchester boroughs and cities - Bolton, Salford, Manchester, Stockport and Wigan.
Starting with a five-day tour of London, coinciding with the Platinum Jubilee, the 2,500 mile journey will be taking in 180 towns, cities and villages up and down England. Thousands of so-called Batonbearers will be taking turns along the journey – between 40 and 130 each day of the route – through England.
On June 2, the baton – which contains a message from the Queen to be read aloud at the Games’ opening ceremony – makes an early landfall in England, spending five days in London, coinciding with the monarch’s 70th year on the throne. It will then be taken to the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, before going to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and then tours of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
