Jodrell Bank aims for star status
JODRELL Bank Observatory is bidding to rank alongside the Taj Mahal and Stonehenge on the international heritage stage.
The site in Cheshire has been selected as the next UK candidate for nomination as a Unesco World Heritage Site. The Lovell Telescope was the world’s largest steerable radio telescope when it was built in 1957. It was named after Sir Bernard Lovell, the astronomer who led a team that tracked the flight of Sputnik 1, the earth’s first artificial satellite.