Tour de France in East London on 7th July

The Tour de France is coming to a place near you on 7th July.

Almost reaching Harringay's hallowed bounds, the tour route takes it through Walthamstow Forest and Hackney.

The Stage 3 route will start in Cambridge city centre at around midday on 7th July, going through Great Shelford in Cambridgeshire before heading into Essex.

The sprint will commence in Essex, then pass through Saffron Walden and close to the towns of Braintree and Chelmsford, before heading west and riding through Epping.

The route then reaches Greater London, where the world's greatest cyclists will ride close to Woodford Green, Chingford, Walthamstow and Snaresbrook before approaching central London via Leyton, Stratford, West Ham, Plaistow, Silvertown, Leamouth, Poplar, Wapping and Shadwell.

Once past the Tower of London, the final kilometres of the route will take them along the Thames, towards Lower and Upper Thames Streets and Victoria Embankment, before riding past the Houses of Parliament, around St James's Park and finishing, with Buckingham Palace as a backdrop, on The Mall in St James's Park between about 15:30 and 16:00.

Map of the most local action of the route is attached.

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