2012 Summer Olympics torch relay

The traditional lighting ceremony took place on 10 May at the Temple of Hera, Olympia, home of the Ancient Olympic Games.[2] The torch travelled around Greece, arriving at the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens on 17 May for the handover ceremony.

The UK torch relay lasted 70 days, with 66 evening celebrations. About 8,000 people carried the torch a total distance of about 8,000 miles (12,800 km), starting from Land's End in Cornwall. The route was widely reported as designed in such a way as to ensure that the Torch came within 10 miles of 95% of the UK population. A wide range of people carried the torch around the country, mostly sports men and women, military figures and other local heroes from towns and cities across the UK. A number of celebrities, musicians and actors also held the flame on its journey, including Doctor Who star Matt Smith, Patrick Stewart, Jamie Oliver, Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders (jointly), Rupert Grint, James McAvoy, Mel C, British/Irish boy band The Wanted, dance troupe/Britain's Got Talent winners Diversity and long time TV presenter, dancer, singer and comedian Sir Bruce Forsyth.[3] The torch had a day outside of the United Kingdom in Dublin on 6 June[4] (as well as visits to the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man). The relay focused on national heritage sites, locations with sporting significance, key sporting events, schools registered with the Get Set School Network, green spaces, biodiversity, 'Live Sites' (locations with large screens), local festivals, and other events.[5]

Following a three-month tour by LOCOG, local authorities submitted ideas to regional government and LOCOG by May 2010.[6] However some counties such as Somerset declined to put forward ideas citing potential costs of up to £300,000.[7]

The start date for the Relay was announced on 26 May 2010, as were the three presenting partners: Coca-Cola, Lloyds TSB and Samsung. The nomination campaign for torchbearers was announced on 18 May 2011 and called 'Moment to Shine'.[8]

Journey to the UK

The specially painted British Airways Airbus A319 carried the flame from Greece to the United Kingdom

On 16 May a British Airways Airbus A319, with custom gold livery and named "The Firefly", flew from Heathrow to Athens to collect the flame.[9] On 18 May the aircraft flew as flight BA2012 from Athens to RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall. The flame was not extinguished during flight, having been classified as a 'ceremonial flame' by the Civil Aviation Authority, but was kept in four Davy lamps secured in a cradle firmly fixed to seats in Row 1. There was enough smokeless fuel to last 30 hours.[10][11][12]

The Princess Royal, Mayor of London Boris Johnson, Lord Coe, and David Beckham were among 80 invited guests, along with a group of teenagers: rugby player Dennis Coles from East Ayrshire representing Scotland, hockey player Chloe Brown from Bangor representing Northern Ireland, athlete Sean White from Swansea representing Wales, hockey player Georgia Higgs from Cornwall, and Sakinah Muhammad from Hackney representing London.[13][14]

After an overnight stay at RNAS Culdrose, members of 771 Naval Air Squadron took the Flame to Land's End by Sea King helicopter. There the Olympic Cauldron was lit. Olympic sailing star Ben Ainslie ran the first leg of the relay.[15]

2012 Summer Olympics torch

The Olympic torch on display in Cardiff, Wales

In the summer of 2010, the Design Council were commissioned to prepare the design brief and begin the search for a design for the Torch and related relay artifacts. With more than 800 designers interested in the project, a short list of 22 was presented to Locog. 6 were selected to present designs the selection being made a few months later. The winning design came from Barber Osgerby, led by Edward Barder and Jay Osgerby.

Their design of the 2012 Olympic Torches was made of two aluminium alloy skin, perforated by 8,000 holes to represent the 8,000 torchbearers who would carry the flame. Technically the holes also helped to dissipate heat without it being conducted down the handle, and provided extra grip.

The triangular shape of torches represented:

• The three Olympic values – respect, excellence and friendship.
• The three elements of the Olympic motto – faster, higher, stronger.
• The three Olympic Games hosted by the United Kingdom (1908, 1948 and 2012).
• The tri-vision of the 2012 Summer Olympics – sport, education and culture.

The gold of the torches represented the qualities of the Olympic flame – brightness and warmth. The torch stands 80 centimetres (31 in) high, weighing 800 grams (1.8 lb).[16] To realise this award-winning design, TECOSIM (an engineering company) was responsible for the research, engineering and technical development of the torch and associated relay items including the celebration cauldrons. Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) was used to simulate various scenarios that the torch might encounter during the relay, from environmental conditions to physical damage. Torch bearer safety was of prime importance at all times, so TECOSIM completed rigorous physical testing to validate the design. It was tested to withstand all likely weather conditions, from high winds to rain and snow at altitude utilizing the BMW Climatic Windtunnel in Munich as well as in field-testing. Production of the torches started towards the end of 2011.

The progress of the Olympic Torch rapidly gave the lie to the idea that people would not show an interest in the event, or indeed the assertion that certain sections of society might stay away. As local and national media around the country reported, crowds proved to be diverse, overwhelmingly good-natured, unprecedentedly noisy and appreciative, and above all large. Around 3000 people were said to have been at Land's End to send the Torch on its way on Day 1, while Day 2 saw Police deliberately limit crowds at the Shaldon Bridge at Teignmouth, Devon, to around 7000, while the various stages through Plymouth were said to have attracted 55,000. [19] Photographs similarly show crowds up to 10 deep on each side of the road in central Falmouth (Day 1). Arriving in Wales for the first time on Day 8, the Torch was reported as being greeted by 25,000 in Caerphilly. Numbers lining the route in no way abated as the days passed, with Bowness by lake Windermere for example mustering 5000 on Day 34; Skegness, Lincolnshire (a town of less than 20,000 people) featuring 5-deep crowds along both sides of its streets on Day 40, and Maidstone on Day 62 playing host to an estimated 40,000-strong crowd. As the Relay reached London, the numbers of people turning out were still more exceptional, with much of Oxford Street featuring crowds 13-deep on both sides (on Day 69). That day ended with a 60,000-strong crowd for the evening events in Hyde Park. While the Police Service gave an estimate for the UK as a whole of some 12 million people lining the route for the Torch, there would seem to be evidence amounting from the individual stretches of the route that suggest that this may ultimately have been an underestimate.

In early June, as the torch relay entered its third week, it was revealed that many of those selected to carry torches on the relay were corporate executives with commercial ties to Olympic sponsors.[20][21]

The torch was escorted by a team of trained officers from the Metropolitan Police Service known as the Torch Security Team. These were chosen from 644 initial applications through an eight-month selection process. Their primary role was to protect the Olympic and Paralympic Flames as well as ensuring the safety of the torchbearer. These "runners" formed part of a wider torch security team which consisted of motorcyclists, pedal cyclists, senior officers and operational planners.

As well as road runners, the Flame was conveyed on other modes of transport, sometimes kept in Davy lamps.

The Olympic torch being punted down the River Cam during the Cambridge leg of the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay.

On water, the torch rode in a power boat in Bristol Harbour,[30][31] in an RNLI lifeboat along the Menai Strait,[32] by ferry on the Mersey Ferry,[33] and by the steamboat MV Tern across Windermere.[34][35] In unpowered watercraft, it was punted along the River Cam in Cambridge,[36] and rowed along the River Medway in Maidstone.[37] Its final journey to the Olympic Stadium on 27 July was by speedboat, piloted by footballer David Beckham along the River Thames.[38]

Over rail the torch was hauled by steam locomotives of various gauges. The LMS Royal Scot Class locomotive No. 6115 Scots Guardsman conveyed it on the East Coast Main Line between York and Thirsk.[39] Scots Guardsman was used as a substitute for No. 4472 Flying Scotsman. It was discovered soon after returning from a long overhaul that Flying Scotsman had many unnoticed cracks on it that needed repairing urgently and as a result, the iconic and famous 'Scotsman' was unable to return to service in time to haul the Olympic Torch.[40] Trips were also taken on standard gauge heritage railways at the Great Central Railway,[41] North Yorkshire Moors Railway[42] and Severn Valley Railway[43] On smaller gauges the torch visited the Ffestiniog Railway[32] and a miniature railway Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway.[44] It was taken up funicular railways the Aberystwyth Cliff Railway,[32] Hastings East Hill Cliff Railway,[45] and Great Orme Tramway,[34] as well as the narrow gauge rack railway the Snowdon Mountain Railway.[32] Electric trams carried the torch on the Blackpool tramway[46] and Manx Electric Railway.[47] After it arrived in London the torch took a trip on the London Underground between Wimbledon and Wimbledon Park.[48]

By road, the torch would complete 80% of its tour, in a security van. A road train was used in the Mumbles[32] and it rode on an open top bus through the Cumbrian countryside.[49] The torch was transported on three wheels by a TT motorcycle sidecar on the Isle of Man,[47] by a Paralympic road cycle around Brands Hatch motor racing circuit[50] and by mountain bike at the Hadleigh Farm course in Essex.[51]

Horses were used when the torch was carried at the Cheltenham and Chester[34] racecourses. It was carried on a Cob horse in Aberaeron[32] and hauled by horse-drawn tram on the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway.[34]

Journeys by air were taken when the torch travelled by zip wire from the top of the Tyne Bridge to the Gateshead riverside,[52] and when conveyed by cable car up the Heights of Abraham.[53] It was also suspended over water as it was transported by the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge over the River Tees.[54]

Day 3: Olympic Torch Relay reaches the County Ground in Taunton.

Day 14: The flame passing between two torches in Burscough, Lancashire.

Day 15: The torch being carried through Onchan, Isle of Man.

Day 19: The torch in Dublin, Ireland.

Day 37: Torch relay handover in Oldham, Greater Manchester.

Day 46: A warning sign for traffic in Stamford, Lincolnshire ahead of the flame passing through the town

Day 50: The Olympic flame being transferred into a lantern in Cambridge for safe-keeping overnight.

Day 54: Torchbearer Damien Davis from Team Wayne carries the Olympic Flame through Ludgershall in Wiltshire.

Day 66: Lucy Caslon founder and director of the charity Msizi Africa waits to receive the Olympic Flame in Sutton, South London

Day 68: Gold medalist Beckie Scott being handed the torch in Brent, North West London.

In the week preceding the Olympics, the National Theatre in London set up a 'Fire Garden' to celebrate the torch relay.

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Date	Map
19 May (day 1): Land's End to Plymouth Land's End Sennen Newlyn Penzance Marazion Rosudgeon Ashton Breage Helston Falmouth Truro Newquay St Stephen St Austell Stenalees Bugle Lanivet Bodmin Liskeard Saltash Plymouth 20 May (day 2): Plymouth to Exeter Brixton Yealmpton Modbury Kingsbridge West Charleton Chillington Torcross Stoke Fleming Dartmouth Totnes Paignton Torquay Teignmouth Exeter 21 May (day 3): Exeter to Taunton Okehampton Folly Gate Hatherleigh Merton Great Torrington Bideford Sticklepath Barnstaple Wrafton Braunton Knowle Ilfracombe Combe Martin Lynton Lynmouth Porlock Minehead Dunster Carhampton Washford Williton Taunton 22 May (day 4): Taunton to Bristol Ilminster Yeovil Ilchester Somerton Street Glastonbury Coxley Wells Croscombe Shepton Mallet Frome Southwick Trowbridge Bradford on Avon Bath Bitton Longwell Green Hanham Bristol 23 May (day 5): Bristol to Cheltenham Flax Bourton Backwell Nailsea Failand Leigh Woods Bristol Chippenham Calne Marlborough Chiseldon Wroughton Royal Wootton Bassett Swindon Cirencester Stroud Painswick Brockworth Shurdington Cheltenham 24 May (day 6): Gloucester to Worcester Gloucester Maisemore Hartpury Corse Staunton Ledbury Bartestree Lugwardine Hereford Leominster Ludlow Clee Hill Cleobury Mortimer Far Forest Callow Hill Bewdley Kidderminster Droitwich Spa Fernhill Heath Worcester 25 May (day 7): Worcester to Cardiff Powick Malvern Malvern Wells Ross-on-Wye Monmouth Raglan Abergavenny Brynmawr Blaenavon Abersychan Pontypool Newport Cardiff 26 May (day 8): Cardiff to Swansea Dinas Powys Barry Caerphilly Pontypridd Merthyr Tydfil Treherbert Ynyswen Treorchy Nantymoel Ogmore Vale Bryncethin Bridgend Laleston Pyle Margam Taibach Port Talbot Briton Ferry Neath Swansea 27 May (day 9): Swansea to Aberystwyth Llanelli Burry Port Kidwelly Carmarthen Haverfordwest Fishguard Newport Cardigan Sarnau Brynhoffnant Llanarth Aberaeron Llanon Llanrhystud Aberystwyth 28 May (day 10): Aberystwyth to Bangor Bow Street Tal-y-bont Tre-Taliesin Machynlleth Dolgellau Llan Ffestiniog Blaenau Ffestiniog Porthmadog Criccieth Pwllheli Bontnewydd Caernarfon Y Felinheli Bangor 29 May (day 11): Beaumaris to Chester Beaumaris Menai Bridge Conwy Deganwy Llandudno Penrhyn Bay Rhos-on-Sea Colwyn Bay Old Colwyn Abergele Towyn Kinmel Bay Rhyl Rhuddlan Connah's Quay Shotton Queensferry Hawarden Saltney Chester 30 May (day 12): Chester to Stoke-on-Trent Wrexham Rhostyllen Acrefair Trevor Oswestry Pant Llanymynech Welshpool Shrewsbury Cressage Much Wenlock Benthall Broseley Ironbridge Telford Newport Gnosall Haughton Stafford Shelton Stoke-on-Trent 31 May (day 13): Stoke-on-Trent to Bolton Cobridge Burslem Middleport Crewe Congleton Macclesfield Knutsford Runcorn Widnes Warrington Lowton Abram Wigan Scholes Ince Hindley Westhoughton Bolton 1 June (day 14): Bolton to Liverpool Horwich Chorley Euxton Croston Burscough Ormskirk Southport Ainsdale Formby Crosby St Helens Huyton Knotty Ash Old Swan Birkenhead Liverpool 2 June (day 15): Liverpool to Castletown Douglas Laxey Onchan Ballasalla Castletown	Land's End Plymouth Exeter Taunton Bristol Cheltenham Gloucester Worcester Malvern Cardiff Swansea Aberystwyth Bangor Chester Stoke-on-Trent Bolton Liverpool Isle of Man
3 June (day 16): Belfast to Portrush Belfast Holywood Bangor Newtownards Comber Dundonald Stormont Newtownabbey Carrickfergus Glynn Larne Drains Bay Ballygalley Glenarm Carnlough Glenariff Cushendall Ballycastle Dervock Bushmills Portrush 4 June (day 17): River Bann to Derry River Bann Coleraine Articlave Castlerock Downhill Bellarena Limavady Ballykelly Greysteel Derry 5 June (day 18): Derry to Newry Newbuildings Magheramason Bready Ballymagorry Strabane Sion Mills Omagh Dromore Irvinestown Enniskillen Fivemiletown Clogher Augher Aughnacloy Caledon Armagh Portadown Gilford Banbridge Newry 6 June (day 19): Dublin to Belfast Dublin Newry Lisburn Belfast 7 June (day 20): Newcastle to Moorfields Newcastle Dundrum Clough Downpatrick Crossgar Saintfield Ballynahinch Templepatrick Antrim Ballyronan Magherafelt Ballymena Moorfields	Belfast Portrush River Bann Derry Newry Newcastle Moorfields
8 June (day 21): Stranraer to Glasgow Stranraer Cairnryan Ballantrae Girvan Turnberry Maidens Kirkoswald Maybole Alloway Ayr Kilmarnock Kilmaurs Stewarton Dunlop Barrmill Beith Lochwinnoch Kilmacolm Port Glasgow Rutherglen Giffnock Glasgow 9 June (day 22): Glasgow to Inverness Bearsden Clydebank Dumbarton Luss Tarbet Crianlarich Tyndrum Glencoe North Ballachulish Fort William Spean Bridge Fort Augustus Invermoriston Lewiston Drumnadrochit Inverness 10 June (day 23): Kirkwall to Lerwick Kirkwall Lerwick 11 June (day 24): Stornoway to Aberdeen Stornoway Inverness Aviemore Carrbridge Grantown-on-Spey Tomintoul Crathie Ballater Dinnet Aboyne Kincardine O'Neil Banchory Drumoak Peterculter Bieldside Cults Aberdeen 12 June (day 25): Aberdeen to Dundee Stonehaven Marykirk Hillside Montrose Brechin Forfar Meigle Coupar Angus Woodside Burrelton Balbeggie Scone Scone Palace Perth Abernethy Newburgh Cupar Dairsie Guardbridge Leuchars Dundee 13 June (day 26): St Andrews to Edinburgh St Andrews Milnathort Kinross Crook of Devon Alloa Bridge of Allan Dunblane Stirling Cumbernauld Larbert Camelon Falkirk Skinflats Cairneyhill Crossford Dunfermline Hopetoun House Broxburn Edinburgh	Stranraer Glasgow Inverness Kirkwall Lerwick Stornoway Aberdeen Dundee St Andrews Edinburgh
14 June (day 27): Edinburgh to Alnwick Duddingston Musselburgh Dalkeith Lasswade Loanhead Bilston Milton Bridge Penicuik Eddleston Peebles Innerleithen Walkerburn Selkirk Galashiels Earlston Gordon Greenlaw Duns Chirnside Foulden Berwick-upon-Tweed Bamburgh Alnwick 15 June (day 28): Alnwick to Newcastle upon Tyne Hipsburn Warkworth Amble Ashington Choppington Morpeth Hartford Bedlington Blyth Whitley Bay Cullercoats Tynemouth North Shields Howdon Wallsend Newcastle upon Tyne 16 June (day 29): Gateshead to Durham Gateshead South Shields Whitburn Sunderland Low Fell Blaydon-on-Tyne Prudhoe Stocksfield Hexham Riding Mill Consett Moorside Castleside Tow Law Esh Langley Park Durham 17 June (day 30): Durham to Middlesbrough Sherburn Sherburn Hill Haswell Plough Peterlee Horden Blackhall Colliery Hartlepool Billingham Sedgefield Bishop Auckland Shildon Middridge Newton Aycliffe Beaumont Hill Harrowgate Hill Darlington Stockton-on-Tees Middlesbrough 18 June (day 31): Middlesbrough to Hull Redcar Marske-by-the-Sea Saltburn-by-the-Sea Brotton Carlin How Loftus Hinderwell Lythe Sandsend Whitby Pickering Scarborough Filey Bridlington Beverley Hull 19 June (day 32): Hull to York Brough Goole Camblesforth Selby Monk Fryston Barkston Ash Tadcaster Boston Spa Wetherby Harewood Knaresborough Harrogate Ripon York 20 June (day 33): York to Carlisle Thirsk Northallerton Aiskew Bedale Aysgarth Leyburn Richmond Barnard Castle Brough Appleby-in-Westmorland Penrith Carlisle 21 June (day 34): Dumfries to Bowness-on-Windermere Dumfries Annan Eastriggs Gretna Carlisle Wigton Aspatria Maryport Flimby Workington Whitehaven Cockermouth Keswick Grasmere Ambleside Bowness-on-Windermere 22 June (day 35): Kendal to Blackpool Kendal Milnthorpe Carnforth Bolton-le-Sands Hest Bank Morecambe Lancaster Garstang St Michael's on Wyre Fleetwood Cleveleys Blackpool 23 June (day 36): Lytham St Annes to Manchester Lytham St Annes Warton Preston Blackburn Accrington Burnley Crawshawbooth Reedsholme Rawtenstall Rochdale Heywood Bury Whitefield Prestwich Higher Broughton Cheetham Hill Manchester 24 June (day 37): Salford to Leeds Salford Trafford Moss Side Rusholme Longsight Levenshulme Stockport Ashton-under-Lyne Oldham Marsh Huddersfield Brighouse Halifax Bradford Keighley Skipton Ilkley Headingley Potternewton Harehills Richmond Hill Leeds [56] 25 June (day 38): Leeds to Sheffield Hunslet Beeston Morley Batley Dewsbury Wakefield Castleford Pontefract Ackworth Lundwood Cundy Cross Barnsley Darton Kexbrough Chapeltown Ecclesfield Parson Cross Sheffield 26 June (day 39): Sheffield to Cleethorpes Rotherham Templeborough Dalton Thrybergh Conisbrough Warmsworth Doncaster Armthorpe Dunsville Hatfield Scunthorpe Brigg Wrawby Immingham Grimsby Cleethorpes 27 June (day 40): Grimsby to Lincoln Grimsby Louth Legbourne Withern Maltby le Marsh Mablethorpe Trusthorpe Sutton-on-Sea Mumby Hogsthorpe Ingoldmells Winthorpe Skegness Wainfleet All Saints Wrangle Boston Sleaford Bracebridge Heath Lincoln 28 June (day 41): Lincoln to Nottingham Saxilby Darlton East Markham Tuxford Kirton Boughton Edwinstowe Mansfield Kelham Newark-on-Trent Balderton Grantham Radcliffe-on-Trent Nottingham 29 June (day 42): Nottingham to Derby Glapwell Bolsover Calow Chesterfield Matlock Darley Dale Bakewell Buxton Ashbourne Derby 30 June (day 43): Derby to Birmingham Burton upon Trent Streethay Lichfield Hopwas Tamworth Great Wyrley Newtown Bloxwich Leamore Birchills Walsall Willenhall Wolverhampton Dudley Oldbury West Bromwich Smethwick Birmingham 1 July (day 44): Birmingham to Coventry Solihull Earlswood Redditch Astwood Bank Alcester Evesham Wickhamford Broadway Chipping Campden Newbold on Stour Alderminster Stratford-upon-Avon Warwick Leamington Spa Kenilworth Coventry 2 July (day 45): Coventry to Leicester Rugby Dunchurch Northampton Wellingborough Isham Kettering Geddington Corby Dingley Market Harborough Lubenham Foxton Kibworth Harcourt Oadby Leicester 3 July (day 46): Leicester to Peterborough Quorn Loughborough Hoton Wymeswold Asfordby Melton Mowbray Langham Oakham Uppingham Stamford Peterborough 4 July (day 47): Peterborough to Norwich Market Deeping Thurlby Bourne Spalding Moulton Whaplode Holbeach Long Sutton King's Lynn South Wootton West Rudham East Rudham Fakenham Holt Cromer Aylsham Norwich	Alnwick Newcastle Gateshead Durham Middlesbrough Hull York Carlisle Dumfries Bowness-on-Windermere Kendal Blackpool Lytham St Annes Manchester Salford Bradford Leeds Sheffield Cleethorpes Grimsby Lincoln Nottingham Derby Birmingham Coventry Leicester Peterborough Norwich
5 July (day 48): Norwich to Ipswich Acle Filby Great Yarmouth Lowestoft Wrentham Reydon Southwold Kelsale Saxmundham Aldeburgh Wickham Market Ufford Melton Woodbridge Felixstowe Ipswich 6 July (day 49): Ipswich to Chelmsford Colchester Hatfield Peverel Heybridge Maldon Rayleigh Southend-on-Sea Hadleigh Basildon Grays Herongate Brentwood Chelmsford 7 July (day 50): Chelmsford to Cambridge Harlow Waltham Abbey Waltham Cross Hertford Ware Bishop's Stortford Stansted Mountfitchet Newport Saffron Walden Haverhill Bury St Edmunds Newmarket Cambridge 8 July (day 51): Cambridge to Luton St Ives Huntingdon Bedford Cotton End Letchworth Stevenage Welwyn Garden City Hatfield St Albans Hemel Hempstead Luton 9 July (day 52): Luton to Oxford Dunstable Milton Keynes Bletchley Buckingham Winslow Whitchurch Aylesbury Stoke Mandeville Aylesbury Waddesdon Bicester Kirtlington Woodstock Kidlington Oxford 10 July (day 53): Oxford to Reading Abingdon-on-Thames Wallingford Crowmarsh Gifford Nettlebed Henley-on-Thames Bisham (Bisham Abbey) Maidenhead Slough Windsor Egham Ascot Bracknell Reading 11 July (day 54): Reading to Salisbury Theale Thatcham Newbury Basingstoke Kings Worthy Winchester Andover Ludgershall Tidworth Amesbury Winterbourne Salisbury 12 July (day 55): Salisbury to Weymouth Wilton Barford St Martin Fovant Ludwell Shaftesbury Fontmell Magna Iwerne Minster Stourpaine Blandford Forum Winterborne Whitechurch Milborne St Andrew Puddletown Dorchester Winterbourne Abbas Bridport Chideock Lyme Regis Burton Bradstock Abbotsbury Portesham Chickerell Wyke Regis Osprey Quay Weymouth 13 July (day 56): Portland Bill to Bournemouth Portland Bill Southwell Weston Easton Portland Fortuneswell Weymouth Preston Osmington Winfrith Newburgh Wool Corfe Castle Swanage Stoborough Wareham Sandford Lytchett Minster Upton Hamworthy Poole Ashley Cross Branksome Wallisdown Bournemouth	Ipswich Chelmsford Cambridge Luton Oxford Reading Salisbury Weymouth Portland Bill Bournemouth
14 July (day 57): Bournemouth to Southampton Boscombe Christchurch Lyndhurst Brockenhurst Lymington Totland Yarmouth Carisbrooke Newport East Cowes Southampton 15 July (day 58): Southampton to Portsmouth Saint Peter Port Saint Helier Fareham Bridgemary Gosport Portsmouth	Southampton Guernsey Jersey Portsmouth
16 July (day 59): Portsmouth to Brighton and Hove Petersfield Rogate Midhurst Easebourne Tillington Petworth Duncton Chichester North Bersted South Bersted Bognor Regis Woodgate Westergate Arundel Worthing Lancing West Blatchington Brighton and Hove 17 July (day 60): Brighton and Hove to Hastings Crawley Copthorne Felbridge East Grinstead Royal Tunbridge Wells Crowborough Lewes Eastbourne Pevensey Bexhill-on-Sea St Leonards-on-Sea Hastings 18 July (day 61): Hastings to Dover Rye Hamstreet Ashford Hythe Sandgate Folkestone Dover 19 July (day 62): Deal to Maidstone Deal Sholden Sandwich Great Stonar Cliffsend St Lawrence Ramsgate Broadstairs St Peter's Cliftonville Margate Westgate-on-Sea Birchington-on-Sea Upstreet Sturry Canterbury Thanington Without Faversham Challock Harrietsham Maidstone 20 July (day 63): Maidstone to Guildford Chatham Gillingham Rochester Higham Gravesend Borough Green Seal Sevenoaks Riverhead Godstone Bletchingley Redhill Reigate Dorking Westcott Shere Godalming Guildford	Brighton and Hove Hastings Dover Deal Maidstone Guildford
21 July (day 64): Greenwich to Waltham Forest Greenwich Newham Tower Hamlets Hackney Waltham Forest 22 July (day 65): Redbridge to Bexley Redbridge Barking and Dagenham Havering Bexley 23 July (day 66): Lewisham to Wandsworth Lewisham Bromley Croydon Sutton Merton Wandsworth 24 July (day 67): Kingston to Ealing Kingston Richmond Hounslow Hillingdon Ealing 25 July (day 68): Harrow to Haringey Harrow Brent Barnet Enfield Haringey 26 July (day 69): Camden to Westminster Camden Islington City Southwark Lambeth Hammersmith and Fulham Kensington and Chelsea Westminster 27 July (day 70): Hampton Court Palace to Olympic Park Hampton Court Palace Olympic Park Olympic Stadium	Greenwich Waltham Forest Redbridge Bexley Lewisham ] Wandsworth Kingston Ealing Harrow Haringey Camden Westminster Olympic Stadium

The end of the relay took place in the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.

The torch arrived aboard a speedboat piloted by David Beckham, via the Limehouse Cut. Steve Redgrave received the flame from young footballer Jade Bailey,[57][58] the torchbearer on the boat, and carried it into the Olympic Stadium.[38] Then Redgrave handed the torch to the seven young athletes, each one nominated by an athlete. The athletes then each applied their torch to one of the 204 petals, which then lit and converged to create the cauldron, which was designed by Thomas Heatherwick.

• 2012 Summer Paralympics torch relay
• Real Relay
• Episode 4466, episode of EastEnders in which the torch was carried

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2012 Summer Olympics torches and torch relay.

External video
London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay - Olympia Lighting Ceremony on YouTube
London Receives The Olympic Flame - Handover Ceremony on YouTube
Olympic Cauldron is lit for London 2012 on YouTube

• Official website
• Full-screen interactive map based on OpenStreetMap
• BBC's coverage of the torch relay (includes full route)
• Torch relay's GPS route taken from the BBC's tracking feed