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  1. Visit

    This way if you need to purchase Annual Tickets, and visit free of charge for the rest of the year Returning Visitor This way if you already have Annual Tickets and would like to book your next visit ... Jodrell Bank Bomish Lane, Lower Withington Cheshire SK11 9DL. Get Directions View larger map Get the latest from Jodrell Bank Join our mailing ...

  2. Jodrell Bank

    Tel: 01477 571766. Email Us. Visit Website. Lovell Telescope Timelapse. Watch on. **Team of the Year Award Winner at the Marketing Cheshire Tourism Awards 2024**. ** Visitor Attraction of the Year at the Marketing Cheshire Tourism Awards 2022/23 - Highly Commended **. Jodrell Bank is an amazing, unique, and awe-inspiring place.

  3. The Lovell Telescope

    The Lovell Telescope. For over 50 years the giant Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank has been a familiar feature of the Cheshire landscape and an internationally renowned landmark in the world of astronomy. Since the summer of 1957 it has been quietly probing the depths of space, a symbol of our wish to understand the universe in which we live.

  4. Jodrell Bank Observatory

    Jodrell Bank Observatory (/ ˈ dʒ ɒ d r əl / JOD-rəl) 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.

  5. Tickets

    No, but it's the only ticket you can buy when booking in advance online and it offers the best value for money. The Annual Ticket enables you to return to Jodrell Bank within 12 months. It also enables us to treat your ticket as a donation, meaning that if you're a UK taxpayer, we can claim 25p for every £1 at no extra cost to you.

  6. Jodrell Bank Observatory

    Jodrell Bank Observatory. Located in a rural area of northwest England, free from radio interference, Jodrell Bank is one of the world's leading radio astronomy observatories. At the beginning of its use, in 1945, the property housed research on cosmic rays detected by radar echoes. This observatory, which is still in operation, includes ...

  7. Welcome to Jodrell Bank

    Jodrell Bank. Jodrell Bank is an amazing, unique, and awe-inspiring place. A world-leading deep-space radio observatory, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and an award-winning national visitor attraction. Uncover the inspirational heritage of Jodrell Bank in the First Light Pavilion. Inside this architecturally stunning building, you'll find a ...

  8. Jodrell Bank Observatory Visitor Centre

    Map. The Jodrell Bank Observatory, part of the University of Manchester, is an observatory in Cheshire that hosts a number of radio telescopes. The main telescope is the 76m high Lovell Telescope. It came to prominence in 1957 when it spotted Russia's Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, and has played an important role in ...

  9. Jodrell Bank Observatory to open £21.5m visitor attraction

    The Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire is to open a new £21.5m interactive visitor attraction. The First Light Pavilion, due to open on 4 June, will showcase archives and artefacts together ...

  10. Jodrell Bank Observatory

    Jodrell Bank Observatory, location of one of the world's largest fully steerable radio telescopes, which has a reflector that measures 76 metres (250 feet) in diameter.The telescope is located with other smaller radio telescopes at Jodrellbank (formerly Jodrell Bank), about 32 kilometres (20 miles) south of Manchester in the county of Cheshire, Eng. Immediately after World War II the British ...

  11. Visiting Jodrell Bank, a cosmic day out from Manchester

    Explore the story of Jodrell Bank at the First Light Pavilion. The new First Light Pavilion opened on 4 June 2022. It's the first place you'll see when you visit Jodrell Bank, and it's quite a sight. The building is covered in grass, and shaped like a dish facing downwards, with the same dimensions as the Lovell Telescope.

  12. Lovell Telescope

    The Lovell Telescope (/ ˈ l ʌ v əl / LUV-əl) is a radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Goostrey, Cheshire, in the north-west of England.When construction was finished in 1957, the telescope was the largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world at 76.2 m (250 ft) in diameter; it is now the third-largest, after the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia, United States, and ...

  13. Webcams

    Webcams. Our web cameras allow you to see the Jodrell Bank Observatory radio telescopes in action, tracking objects in space as the Earth rotates and they appear to move across the sky. On some occasions the telescopes may be parked for engineering maintenance or if high winds are forecast. Lovell Telescope.

  14. JODRELL BANK: All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (with Photos)

    About. Jodrell Bank is an amazing, unique, and awe-inspiring place. A world-leading deep-space radio observatory, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and an award-winning national visitor attraction. Uncover the science and stories of this fascinating place through a range of interactive exhibitions, planetarium shows, events, and more.

  15. Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics

    The story of Jodrell Bank began in 1945 when Bernard Lovell came to the University to observe cosmic rays. ... +44 (0) 161 306 9400; Find us (Centre for Astrophysics) Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Manchester Alan Turing Building Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom. Connect with us. Disclaimer; Data Protection ...

  16. PDF Your Journey Through Jodrell

    Jodrell Welcome to the Jodrell Bank Centre for Engagement Thank you for choosing to visit the Jodrell Bank Centre for Engagement. The most famous structure on the site is the Lovell Telescope, but we also have exhibitions, talks, gardens, a café and a gift shop for you to enjoy during your time here.

  17. Giant Lovell radio telescope at Jodrell Bank to become space ...

    By Victoria Gill. The UK's largest radio telescope - the Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire - is being turned into a light and sound show. For the first time since 2019, at the Bluedot ...

  18. Jodrell Bank

    The Jodrell Bank Observatory contains numerous examples of physical evidence of the international interchange of ideas at a significant time in history, as the new science of radio astronomy and the space age developed during the 1940s-60s. Jodrell Bank is a symbol of international scientific collaboration and exchange of ideas and values.