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©Glyn Drury
Dist:0.4km<br/>Red Lane is a quiet, single-track country lane bordered by hedgerows and flanked by barley fields. This photo shows the view through a gateway towards Jodrell Bank, which dominates the countryside for miles around.
©Iain McDonald
Dist:0.6km<br/>If only more old tires could go to homes as good as this swing, in the middle of a field near the crux of Bomish Lane and Bridge Lane. A rough path here is followed on the far side of the field by a footpath through to Blackden Hall.
©Iain McDonald
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©Glyn Drury
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©Glyn Drury
Dist:0.9km<br/>Bridge which carries the Manchester to Crewe railway line, near Goostrey.
©Eirian Evans
Dist:1.0km<br/>Taken from Snelson lane railway bridge
©Ian Warburton
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©Timothy Baldwin
Dist:1.0km<br/>A frosty February morning. I was just passing.
©S Parish
Dist:1.0km<br/>Standing in front of the visitors centre looking west at the radio telescope. If you visit don't miss the arboretum; it's beautifully landscaped and a place of complete tranquillity.
©Paul Ashwin
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©Terry Robinson
Dist:1.1km east<br/>Constructed in 1955, the Mark 1 telescope at Jodrell Bank become operational in the summer of 1957. At the time, it was the only telescope in the Western world able to track the carrier rocket of Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite. On its 30th anniversary, in 1987, it was renamed in honour of Sir Bernard Lovell, who established the Jodrell Bank Observatory in the late 1940s. When built, the telescope was the largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world at 76 metres (250 ft) in diameter; even today it is still the third largest. http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/aboutus/lovell/ University of Manchester Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
©David Dixon
Dist:1.1km east<br/>Looking across the field from Bomish Lane. The giant Mark 1 telescope at Jodrell Bank began operating in 1957. At the time, it was the largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world at 76 metres (250 ft) in diameter; even today it is still the third largest in the world. in 1987, The telescope was renamewd in honour of Sir Bernard Lovell. http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/aboutus/lovell/ University of Manchester Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
©David Dixon
Dist:1.1km east<br/>At 76 metres in diameter, the Lovell Telescope - to the left in this picture - is the world's 3rd-largest fully-steerable telescope; it began operating in 1957. The smaller dish (The MKII Radio Telescope completed in 1964) can be seen behind and to the right. At the time this photo taken in 1973, the larger telescope was "the Jodrell Mark 1 Radio Telescope"; it was renamed in honour of Sir Bernard Lovell in 1987. http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/ Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
©David Dixon
Dist:1.1km east<br/>Grade I listed structure
©Julian Osley

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