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Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory ('''MRAO''') is home to a number of large Aperture Synthesis Radio Telescope s, including the One-Mile Telescope , 5-km Ryle Telescope , and the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager . Radio interferometry started in the mid- 1940s on the outskirts of Cambridge, but with funding from the Science Research Council and a donation of £100,000 from Mullard Limited, construction of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory commenced at Lord's Bridge , a few Kilometre s to the west of Cambridge. The observatory was founded under Martin Ryle of the Radio-Astronomy Group of the Cavendish Laboratory , University Of Cambridge and was opened by Sir Edward Victor Appleton on 25 July 1957 . This group is now known as the Cavendish Astrophysics group. The site is located at Lord's Bridge , Cambridgeshire on a former ordnance storage facility, next to the now-abandoned Cambridge-Bedford 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 . TELESCOPES EXTERNAL LINKS
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