Get your cowbells at the ready – the Tour de Manc cycle race is coming to Oldham on Sunday, May 1.
This annual event covers all 10 boroughs in Greater Manchester, and more information is online here.
There are several routes of various lengths, for different levels of ability. No road closures are needed in the borough.
Cyclists enter the borough from Middleton via the A669 Middleton Road, and the full route covers:
- B6195 Haigh Lane, Chadderton Hall Road, Mill Brow, Street Bridge Road, Middleton Road (Royton).
- High Street (Royton), Sandy Lane, Rochdale Lane, Dogford Road, Fir Lane, Narrowgate Brow
- Thornham Road (High Crompton)
- B6194 Rochdale Road (High Crompton)
- Beal Lane, Grains Road (Shaw), Hillside Avenue
- B6197 Buckstones Road
- A672 Oldham Road (Grains Bar) to Denshaw Crossroads
- A640 Rochdale Road Denshaw to Rochdale borough boundary
- A6052 Delph Road (Denshaw), Denshaw Road (Delph), High Street (Delph), King Street, Millgate, The Sound
- B6197 Grains Road Delph
- A62 Huddersfield Road (Delph) to Tetley Bye Road
- A670 Standedge Road, Wool Road, High Street (Uppermill), Oldham Road to Chapel Road
- A6051 Chapel Road
- B6175 Shaw Hall Bank Road, Well-i-hole Road, then Huddersfield Road, Mossley
- Tetley Bye Road
- Huddersfield Road (Diggle)
- Harrop Green Lane,
- Station Road
- Lee Side
- Ward Lane
- Running Hill Lane, Running Hill Gate,
- Gellfield Lane, Knowl Top Lane, Haw Clough Lane, Kinders Lane
- A669 Chew Valley Road to Shaw Hall Bank Road