Some of the biggest names in cycling will race through Notts this September as part of the 2017 Tour of Britain.
Riders will race a 175-kilometre stage from Mansfield to Newark-on-Trent on Wednesday, September 6.
Organisers annouced stage six will take in Eastwood, Hucknall, Gedling, the grounds of Newstead Abbey and the centre of Southwell.
Nottinghamshire is the only county in the Midlands to host one of the eight stages.
The teams for the 2017 Tour of Britain will be announced in the summer ahead of the event which takes place from September 3-10.
But previous tours have seen top-class riders such as Andre Greipel, Rohan Dennis and Marcel Kittel race on British roads.
The stage will also pass through Sherwood Forest and Clumber Park, and then loop the north of the county and Worksop and Retford.
Derek Higton, service director for cultural services at Nottinghamshire County Council said: “This is a great coup for Nottinghamshire to host a full stage of the UK’s biggest free-to-attend sporting event for the first time.
“With a world-wide audience of millions and 1.6 million spectators expected over the 8-day race, all eyes will be on Nottinghamshire on Wednesday 6 September.
“We are delighted at the prospect of some of the biggest names in cycling coming to our county and hope it inspires more people to cycle, whether that be to get to work, help them keep fit, or just to get out to enjoy the great outdoors.”
It will be the first time that Nottinghamshire has hosted an entire stage of the Tour.
The race last passed through the county in 2015, when a stage finished in Nottingham.
