Apologies if there’s already a thread on this. I know it was announced already as being in Yorkshire and rumoured to be coming to Calderdale but this seems to confirm the locations. Awesome – will defo be there!!
It’s official: The Tour de France is coming to Calderdale in 2014.
The first details of the stages for the Yorkshire Grand Depart were announced at a Press conference in Paris this morning.
And stage two, which will take place on Sunday, July 6, will take the 200-strong peloton from York to Sheffield, via Haworth, Hebden Bridge, Cragg Vale, Elland and Huddersfield.
Route maps are due to be released later today, but the climbs of Oxenhope Moor, Cragg Vale and Ripponden Bank all seem likely to feature, along with the iconic Holme Moss ascent above Holmfirth, on a day likened by organisers to the infamously hilly Liege-Bastogne-Liege one day race.
Stage One takes the race from Leeds to Harrogate via the Yorkshire Dales, with Stage Three running from Cambridge to London, with a finish on The Mall.
http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/business/tour-de-france-coming-to-calderdale-as-yorkshire-route-details-announced-in-paris-1-5323174