The Grand Départ for The Women’s Tour will be jointly hosted by Colchester and Suffolk, as the race begins Monday, June 6 with stage 1 taking place the two cities, the finish in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. The next two stages feature first-ever visits to Harlow and Gloucestershire, June 7 and June 8, respectively.

Subsequent legs of the race will visit Wales for two days – stage 4 on June 9 and the mountaintop finish at Black Mountain for stage 5 on June 10. The race will conclude in Oxfordshire on Saturday, June 11, with stage 6 between Chipping Norton, in the Cotswolds, and the heart of Oxford, between historic Chipping Norton and Oxford’s world-famous city centre.