Mansfield Market Place was packed on Wednesday morning for the start of the Tour of Britain stage that started in the town on Wednesday.

Hundreds of people watched the fourth stage of the eight-stage race as some of the world’s top riders went along a 165km route from Mansfield to Newark-on-Trent.

There were large crowds along the route throughout the county too.

The fourth stage of the biggest free-to-view event in the UK set off on a 6km ride through the town from Mansfield Market Place.

Riders headed up Leeming Street and north along Chesterfield Road past Tesco before turning left at the Civic Centre on to Rosemary Street.

They continued past the Fire Station and the old bus station and went go by Titchfield Park and Mansfield Leisure Park on Nottingham Road.

Cyclists turned right at High Oakham Primary School and continued along Atkin Lane and Sheepbridge Lane before turning left on to the A38 near the Sir John Cockle pub.

They joined the Ashfield section of the race near King’s Mill Hospital, Sutton.

After heading south through Ashfield and later Newstead Abbey, the route went through Ravenshead, Blidworth, Farnsfield, Southwell, Bilsthorpe, Edwinstowe, Budby and Worksop before finishing in Newark.