England’s cycling races cross a landscape built for constant changes of rhythm, from exposed moorland and steep rural lanes to historic market towns and major cities. Follow the peloton through the English countryside while uncovering the local history, industrial heritage and distinctive communities encountered along the racing roads.
The 2026 Tour of Britain ends in a landscape where stories have always travelled easily between history and legend. The final stage begins in Earlston, home of a medieval figure remembered as Thomas the Rhymer, who existed in historical records…
The fourth stage of the Tour of Britain begins beneath the ruins of a castle whose medieval lord was one of the barons appointed to enforce Magna Carta, then travels across a part of Yorkshire where almost every change in…
Stage 3 begins beside a river that made a city and soon reaches a sea that is slowly destroying a coastline. From Hull, the Tour of Britain travels east across Holderness until the land ends at the North Sea. The…
The second stage of the Tour of Britain begins and ends in two Lincolnshire towns whose histories were transformed by journeys away from them. From Boston, religious dissenters crossed the North Sea and eventually the Atlantic, carrying with them a…
There are few better places in Britain to begin a bicycle race than the square between Lincoln Castle and Lincoln Cathedral. On one side stands a fortress ordered by William the Conqueror after the Norman invasion; on the other rises…
