More details from the TFL press release:
Event details
- The opening ceremony will take place on Friday 6 July 2007 in Trafalgar Square
- The Prologue will take place on Saturday 7th July 2007. It will start on Whitehall, in front of Trafalgar Square. The riders will race past Downing Street towards Parliament Square on an 8km course. Turning at the Houses of Parliament, the route goes along Victoria Street, past Westminster Abbey and in front of Buckingham Palace. After the Palace the riders will pass through the middle of Wellington Arch, before looping through London's most famous park, Hyde Park. Finally the riders will pass back around Hyde Park Corner and along Constitution Hill, before ending on The Mall with Buckingham Palace as a backdrop
- Stage 1 will take place on 8th July 2007 and will take in some of Britain's most picturesque and historic towns
- The route starts on The Mall, runs through Admiralty Arch and then proceeds alongside the Thames down to the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben
- The riders will cross The Thames before riding past the London Eye and looping back to take in St Paul's Cathedral and the Tower of London
- The riders will pass over Tower Bridge, through Bermondsey and Deptford to Greenwich where they will cross the Greenwich Meridian Line, where all time zones are measured from
- The route then passes through Woolwich, Abbey Wood and Erith, before leaving London for Dartford in Kent
- The route then goes through Gravesend and on to Medway, dominated by Rochester Castle and Cathedral
- Passing on through Maidstone the route will take the riders to Tonbridge and then on to Royal Tunbridge Wells
- The route winds through the beautiful Kent countryside, through the picturesque town of Tenterden and past Ashford to a potentially nail biting finish in Canterbury
- The press centre and race head quarters will be at ExCeL London from Wednesday 4 July until Saturday 7 July
- On Sunday 8 July the press centre and race head quarters will be located in The Canterbury High School
