Pickmere is a village and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
near Knutsford in the
Borough of Cheshire East. It has a population of 541.
Office for National Statistics : ''Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Macclesfield''
Retrieved 2009-12-01 Landmarks in and around the village include a lake, Pick Mere, at .
Pickmere is home to one of the radio telescopes that make up the Jodrell Bank
Jodrell Bank Observatory () 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 astro ...
MERLIN (Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network) radio telescope array linking six observing stations that together form a powerful telescope with an effective aperture of over 217 kilometres.
See also
* Listed buildings in Pickmere
References
External links
Villages in Cheshire
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