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Jodrell Bank Observatory

In or near Knutsford.

Jodrell Bank Observatory — astronomical observatory in Cheshire, England, UK.

Jodrell Bank Observatory

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Jodrell Bank Observatory is a unesco in west midlands. (Astronomical observatory in Cheshire, England.) Wikipedia notes: "Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, hosts a number of radio telescopes as part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. The observatory was established in 1945 by Bernard Lovell, a radio astronomer at the university, to investigate cosmic rays after his work on radar in the Second World War.". Coordinates 53.2362°, -2.3071°. Sources are credited at the bottom of this page.

Coordinates
53.2362, -2.3071

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