Host venues for the 2025 Lloyds Tour of Britain Women are announced. Glasgow will host the overall finish of the race this summer (5 - 8 June). This is the first time the event has been held in Scotland.
The 2025 edition will begin in the northeast of England with the opening two stages in the Tees Valley and North Yorkshire, before heading Scotland.
The Scottish Borders will host the Lloyds Tour of Britain Women for the first time this June. Stage three of the UCI Women’s World Tour event comes to Kelso on Saturday 7 June.
The announcement comes after the region has successfully hosted the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men on ten occasions since 2009. Most recently, Paul Magnier won the opening stage in Kelso in September 2024.
Stage three, the penultimate leg of the 2025 race and the "Queen Stage", will again start and finish at The Square in Kelso. Riders will tackle a testing and spectator friendly stage route around the Eildon Hills, similar to that raced on by the men in 2024.
The route will include visits to Melrose, Denholm, and Jedburgh, as well as a passage of the finish line on Kelso’s cobbled market square. Full details, including "Queen of the Mountains" and "Sprint" locations, to be announced in the coming weeks.
The saltire flies above the start podium at the Tour of Britain Women 2024. Credit: SWPix.com
Stage four will start and finish at Glasgow Green, using ten laps of an 8.4 kilometre (5.3 miles) circuit through the city centre.
Organisers and stakeholders are working together to create a packed day of cycling themed events and activities.
This includes the chance for people and families to celebrate the final stage and to ride on some of the same roads as the professionals on a closed road city centre circuit after the race on Sunday 8 June.
Tour of Britain Women 2024 peloton taking a corner. Credit: SWPix.com
The 2025 Lloyds Tour of Britain Women is being supported through EventScotland’s International Events Programme.
Further announcements, including the detailed routes for the four stages and the participating teams for the 2025 Lloyds Tour of Britain Women, will be announced in the coming weeks.
From scenic road routes to world-class mountain biking trails, Scotland is a must-visit destination for cyclists of all levels.
As a world-leading tourism and events destination, we are thrilled to be welcoming the Lloyds Tour of Britain Women 2025 to Scotland for the first time.
The Scottish Borders and Glasgow will provide the perfect stage for the final two stages of the race.
Starting and finishing in Kelso’s historic Town Square, the penultimate leg of the race will take in some of the most scenic landscapes of the Scottish Borders as it travels through Eildon Hills, Melrose, Denholm, and Jedburgh, while the final stage in Glasgow will showcase the striking architecture of Scotland’s largest city.
It is incredible for the region to be hosting yet another world class cycling event, building on the ten Tour of Britain Men’s race visits over the past 16 years and the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships.
The Lloyds Tour of Britain Women will bring the world’s best riders to the Borders for a full day of action.
That will attract visitors from far and wide, which supports our local economy, and hopefully getting up close to the race will help to inspire more local people, especially women and girls, to get back on their bikes or take up cycling.
Last year’s men’s event had a £2.48 million impact on the area and I am sure that we will see a really significant impact from this event in June.
Glasgow is one of the world’s top sporting cities and Scotland’s only UCI Bike City, so it is the perfect place to host the Lloyds Tour of Britain Women.
Our city staged the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships to great acclaim and the finale of the Lloyds Tour of Britain Women promises to produce many more spectacular moments, with the UK’s best female cyclists competing in front of a passionate home crowd as the event comes to Scotland for the first time.
The event will be the latest in a long line of high-profile, exhilarating sporting contests to take place in Glasgow and there is much to look forward to, with the 2026 Commonwealth Games set to bring 3,000 of the world’s best athletes to our city next summer.
We are excited to once again be breaking new ground with the Lloyds Tour of Britain Women with four completely new stages for the race, and taking the Lloyds Tour of Britain Women to Scotland for the first time and two exciting stages.
We know what a great town Kelso is to host a combined start and finish in its picturesque market square, and that the Scottish Borders roads make for great racing, while being able to finish the race overall in the heart of a major city like Glasgow will be a great way to round out this year’s tour.
We are delighted to be bringing some of the world’s best teams and riders to our communities this June as a part of the UCI Women's World Tour and to showcase the very best of their character and terrain on what will be four challenging stages.
On behalf of British Cycling Events, I would like to pay thanks to our partners across the four stages for supporting the hosting and delivery of this summer's race and enabling us to bring another memorable and action packed four days of world class racing to their communities, spreading the joy of cycling along the route and inspiring more people to get on a bike and live healthier lives.