{"id":684228,"date":"2026-07-10T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684228\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:58:09","slug":"amazing-cumbria-to-be-showcased-by-tour-of-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684228\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Amazing’ Cumbria to be showcased by Tour of Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first stage of the women’s Tour of Britain will showcase “amazing” parts of Cumbria, a council chief has said.<\/p>\n

Stage One of competition will begin and end in Cockermouth and take riders through 98.7 miles (158.9 km) of Cumbrian countryside, including almost 6,300ft (1.9km) of ascent.<\/p>\n

The first of five stages, it starts on 19 August and will pass through Frizington, Whitehaven, Lowca, Workington, Flimby, Maryport, Allonby, Silloth, Wigton, Caldbeck and Aspatria.<\/p>\n

Cumberland Council leader Mark Fryer said he was “delighted” with the route.<\/p>\n

The route takes in views of the Irish Sea, which could bring crosswinds on exposed sections, organisers said.<\/p>\n

The riders will finish on a 16.1 mile (26 km) circuit around Clints Crags, passing Watch Hill and Ruddings Hill.<\/p>\n

Fryer said: “We are delighted the route takes in so much of our west coast and will showcase our amazing towns and landscape.”<\/p>\n

Cumbria is also hosting a start and a finish of the men’s Tour de France<\/a> next year.<\/p>\n

“This is great news,” Fryer said, adding it was “proof our area is a prime location for international events”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first stage of the women’s Tour of Britain will showcase “amazing” parts of Cumbria, a council chief…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-684228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}