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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

near Knutsford in the Borough of Cheshire East. It has a population of 541 (2001 Census).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 astron ...

MERLIN The Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN) is an interferometer array of radio telescopes spread across England. The array is run from Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire by the University of Manchester on behalf of UK Re ...

(Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network)

radio telescope A radio telescope is a specialized antenna (radio), antenna and radio receiver used to detect radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky. Radio telescopes are the main observing instrument used in radio astronomy, which studies the r ...

array linking six observing stations that together form a powerful telescope with an effective aperture of over 217 kilometres.

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Villages in Cheshire {{Cheshire-geo-stub

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