Torch route for London Games

Past major city landmarks and through remote islands, the Olympic torch will travel the length of Britain during a 70-day relay ahead of the 2012 London Games.

Olympic organizers on Wednesday named 74 locations where 8,000 torchbearers will carry the flame after it arrives from Greece in exactly a year's time on May 18, 2012.

The 8,000-mile relay will start the following morning at the southern tip of Britain at Land's End in Cornwall, and organizers plan to hold evening celebrations on 66 days of the journey.

The flame will pass through England's major cities, including Manchester and Birmingham, as well as the Welsh capital Cardiff and Scotland's capital Edinburgh.

The relay will also go off the mainland to visit Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Shetland, Orkney and the Isle of Lewis.

The flame will spend the week in London before it is used to light the cauldron at the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium on Friday, July 27, 2012.

Locations by date:

May
19 - Land's End
19 - Plymouth
20 - Exeter
21 - Taunton
22 - Bristol
23 - Cheltenham
24 - Worcester
25 - Cardiff
26 - Swansea
27 - Aberystwyth
28 - Bangor
29 - Chester
30 - Stoke-on-Trent
31 - Bolton

June
1 - Liverpool
2 - Isle of Man (island visit)
3 - Portrush
4 - Derry-Londonderry
5 - Newry
6 - Belfast
8 - Glasgow
9 - Inverness
10 - Orkney (island visit)
10 - Shetland (island visit)
11 - Isle of Lewis (island visit)
11 - Aberdeen
12 - Dundee
13 - Edinburgh
14 - Alnwick
15 - Newcastle
16 - Durham
17 - Middlesbrough
18 - Hull
19 - York
20 - Carlisle
21 - Bowness-on-Windermere
22 - Blackpool
23 - Manchester
24 - Leeds
25 - Sheffield
26 - Cleethorpes
27 - Lincoln
28 - Nottingham
29 - Derby
30 - Birmingham

July
1 - Coventry
2 - Leicester
3 - Peterborough
4 - Norwich
5 - Ipswich
6 - Chelmsford
7 - Cambridge
8 - Luton
9 - Oxford
10 - Reading
11 - Salisbury
12 - Weymouth & Portland
13 - Bournemouth
14 - Southampton
15 - Guernsey (island visit)
15 - Jersey (island visit)
15 - Portsmouth
16 - Brighton & Hove
17 - Hastings
18 - Dover
19 - Maidstone
20 - Guildford
21 - Waltham Forest, London
22 - Bexley, London
23 - Wandsworth, London
24 - Ealing, London
25 - Haringey, London
26 - Westminster, London

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

Source: http://espn.go.com/blog/olympics/post/_/id/859/torch-route-for-london-games

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