In 2007 the first day of the tour(the prolog) was held in London England.
I'm not sure about the answer above, but I think there's a reason the Tour de France is called so; because it is held in the Country of France. Last time I checked, road bikes can't cross water. Maybe the opening stage was once in London, though.
A road stage followed the London prologue that year. London to Canterbury, the Tour then crossed the channel & began the next stage in Dunkerque.
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It begins on the first Saturday in July and last for 3 weeks.
It starts about 12.25 to 13.20 GMT+2
July
Starts at the beginning of July and runs for about 22 days with 20 stages and 2 rest days.
Every year from 1903 and forward, apart from the war years of WWI and WWII.
The Tour has been held every year since 1903 except 1916 - 1919 (WW1) and 1941 - 1946 (WW2).
As of the 2008 Tour de France, no British cyclist has ever won the Tour. One British cyclist, Robert Millar, was King of the Mountains in 1984.
The Tour De France always finishes in Paris and has mountain sections and time trials but the route changes each year even crossing into bordering countries on occasion. As far as I know it went into the Italian Alpes ad Spanish Pyranees in recent years and has also had a stage in the UK.
The race route changes every year, in 2008 the first stage of the race began in Brest, in 2009 the race will begin in Monte Carlo. The 2010 Tour will be launched from the south side of Rotterdam, for a prologue time-trial. The launching pad will actually be set up in Zuidplein, from where the riders will move north Source: http://www.letour.fr/indexus.html
There were 8 cyclists from the UK in the 2010 Tour de France: Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky, 24th place Geraint Thomas, Team Sky, 67 Steve Cummings, Team Sky, 151 Mark Cavendish, Team HTC-Columbia, 154 David Millar, Garmin-Transitions, 158 Jeremy Hunt, Cervelo Test Team, 163 Daniel Lloyd, Cervelo Test Team, 164 Charles Wegelius, Omega Pharma-Lotto, withdrew after the 10th stage
The English Channel or more precisely the Strait of Dover in English and Le Pas de Calais in French