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Cavendish Laboratory : Plan of the Lord's Bridge site in 1954

Cavendish Laboratory

<p style='text-align: justify;'>As the space at the rifle range behind the University Rugby Ground in Grange Road was too small for the next-generation radio interferometers, the radio observatory moved to a disused wartime Air Ministry bomb store at Lord's Bridge in 1956, about 10 km to the south-west of Cambridge. This new site had the advantage that it was much better suited for radio astronomy because of the lower level of man-made radio interference (Longair, 2016, p. 339)</p>

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