Next year's Tour of Britain, part of the new UCI Pro Series, will run from Sunday, September 6 to Sunday, September 13. The race will run in the same calendar slot as 2019, but will clash with four World Tour races next year, with the Bink Bank Tour moving to a later slot.

For the first time ever, the race will start in Cornwall, in southwest England, and will face star rider competition from the Vuelta a España, which ends on September 6, and the Grand Prix de Quebec and Montreal, which take place on September 11 and 13, respectively.

However, the Bink Bank Tour, usually held in mid-August, will end on September 6 next year, as the Tokyo Olympics will be held in late July.

This calendar reshuffling will allow the big-name riders to compete in the warm-up period before the UCI Road World Championships in Switzerland. In recent years, the Tour of Britain has been positioned as an important tune-up event before the World Championships.

This season, Harrogate Road Race silver medalist Matteo Trentin (Mitchelton-Scott) finished second overall in two stages, as did Gianni Moscon (Team Ineos), who finished fourth in Yorkshire.

Mathieu van der Poel (Corendon Circus), who was part of Harrogate's Late Attack group, won the overall at the 2019 Tour of Britain and also won three stages in his debut race.

Next year's Tour of Britain will again be an eight-day race, opening with a 170-km stage from Penzance to Bodmin.

The designation as a professional series has not resulted in any major changes to the race, and calendar reforms have merged many .HC and .1s under this grouping. The Tour of Yorkshire will also be held as part of the Pro Series from April 30 to May 3.

Route details for the 2020 Tour of Britain will be announced in late 2019 and the full route early next year.