Approximate Location:
OS Grid Reference: SJ 7950 7110
Latitude: 53.14.12N Longitude: 2.18.30W
An observatory established in 1945. In Boneland, Colin Whisterfield was an astrophysicist employed at Jodrell Bank, but was using the facility to try and make contact with his sister, Susan, whom he believed to be lost in the Pleiades star constellation.
Alan Garner lives very close to Jodrell Bank at the Blackden Trust .