Around 40,000 spectators are expected to flock to Derbyshire to see the Tour de France pass through the county on Sunday.
The globe's most competitive cyclists will enter Derbyshire on the A6024 near to one of the great cycling climbs at Holme Moss − at 524 metres or 1,719 feet the site of the highest radio transmitter in the country - before descending along the A628 Woodhead Pass towards Barnsley and beyond.
The riders are expected in the county around 3pm with the Tour's caravan and 150-strong vehicle procession running through beforehand at about 1pm.
Around 40,000 spectators are expected to line the county's part of the route.
Road closures will be needed on the day and in the days leading to the event. Access will be maintained for local residents and emergency vehicles.
The main road closures are:• A6024 Holme Moss Road closed at junction with A628 to Holme Village/Holmfirth (Kirklees), from 6pm, Friday 4 July• B6105 Woodhead Road closed at junction with Padfield Main Road to A628, from 6pm, Friday 4 July• A57/A628 from Mottram Moor to Midhopestones (South Yorkshire), closed eastbound from Stalybridge Road, just after midnight, Sunday 6 July• A628 closed east of junction with Old Road, Tintwistle, just after midnight Sunday 6 July• A57 closed at Woolley Bridge, from around 2am, Sunday 6 July. This road will reopen eastbound, during the morning, for Tour de France spectator traffic• West Drive, West Street, Conduit Street, Tintwistle closed at their junctions with the A628, from around 1am, Sunday 6 July• New Road Tintwistle, closed at junction with A628, from 1am, Sunday 6 July• A one-way system will operate south of Glossop town centre along the A6016 Primrose Lane and Turnlee Road and the A624 Charlestown Road, Victoria Street and Norfolk Street up to the junction with Ellison Street, from around 2am, Sunday 6 July, until early afternoon• There will be no direct access into or out of the A57 High Street West (from the east end of Victoria Street junction). Access to High Street West will be maintained from the west end, from Primrose Lane. From the east end access will be via a diversion route along Norfolk Street, Talbot Road, North Road, Fauvel Road and Arundel Street• Spectator traffic will be able to drive inbound from Glossop along the B6105 before the event and will be turned around at certain points to park in a Glossop bound direction. Spectators can then either walk or cycle to Woodhead or Holme Moss using the Transpennine Trail. At the close of the event cars will move off in the direction of Glossop
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