The Olympic Torch
The Olympic Torch is touring the UK on a 70 day relay. It is being carried through villages, towns and cities across the Midlands travelling by boat, train, tram, and cable car, and even across ice.
Olympic Torch - Day 44, Birmingham to Coventry
DAY 44 – SUNDAY JULY 1st:
The torch starts day 44 at Victoria Square in Birmingham is carried through the city, past the Bull Ring, Digbeth, Bordesley, Sparkbrook, Sparkhill, Hall Green and Solihull.
There are then legs in Earlswood, Redditch, Astwood Bank, Alcester, Evesham, Wickhamford, Broadway, Chipping Campden, Newbold on Stour, Alderminster, and Stratford-upon-Avon, past Shakespeare's birthplace.
There are then relays through Warwick via Warwick Castle, Leamington Spa, Kenilworth via Kenilworth Castle, finishing with an evening celebration at Coventry's War Memorial Park.
BIRMINGHAM (VICTORIA SQUARE)
DIGBETH
BORDESLEY
SPARKBROOK
SPARKHILL
HALL GREEN
SOLIHULL
EARLSWOOD
REDDITCH
ASTWOOD BANK
ALCESTER
EVESHAM
WICKHAMFORD
BROADWAY
CHIPPING CAMPDEN
NEWBOLD ON STOUR
ALDERMINSTER
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
WARWICK
WARWICK CASTLE
LEAMINGTON SPA
KENILWORTH
KENILWORTH CASTLE
COVENTRY (WAR MEMORIAL PARK)
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