Tour de France comes to Rochdale
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Tour de France comes to Rochdale
Image: © michael ely Taken: 15 May 2014
Above the entrance to Gordon Rigg's Garden Centre is this yellow bicycle promoting the 2014 race. As the peloton turns left into Halifax Road at the top of the Cragg Vale climb it will have travelled 0.33 miles in Rochdale.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.607899
Longitude
-2.136437