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SUMMARY:Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO) Tour * 2:00pm - 3:30pm 
 - Guided Tour
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CONTACT:Equality &amp\; Diversity
DESCRIPTION:Location: Lord’s Bridge\, Barton\, Cambridge\, CB3 7EX. Entr
 ance to the Visitor Centre is on the left approx. 500m after leaving Barto
 n boundary\, signposted MRAO and Station House. Parking is available on si
 te.\n\nThe tour to the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO) is a tou
 r around the history of Radio astronomy. The observatory is home to a numb
 er of large aperture synthesis radio telescopes\, including the One-Mile T
 elescope\, 5-km Ryle Telescope\, and the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager. Rad
 io interferometry started in the mid-1940s on the outskirts of Cambridge\,
  but a few years after the construction of the MRAO transferred to the cur
 rent site at Lord's Bridge. The observatory was founded under Martin Ryle 
 of the Radio-Astronomy Group of the Cavendish Laboratory\, University of C
 ambridge and was opened by Sir Edward Victor Appleton on 25 July 1957. Thi
 s group is now known as the Cavendish Astrophysics Group. The site is  at 
 a former ordnance storage facility\, next to the now-abandoned Cambridge-B
 edford railway line. A portion of the track bed of the old line\, running 
 nearly East-West for several miles\, was used to form the main part of the
  "5km" radio-telescope and the Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope
 . In the 21st century we can see at Lord’s Bridge a combination of histo
 ric as well as modern and future radio telescopes\, which are currently un
 der development.\n Accessibility: The tour will involve around 2km of walk
 ing over flat paved roads. Disabled parking is available. There is wheelch
 air access into buildings on site.\n\n*To book a place\, please visit: htt
 p://mullardradioast2.eventbrite.co.uk *
LOCATION:Lord's Bridge\, Barton\, Cambridge CB3 7EX
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