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Madley Communications Centre
Madley Communications Centre in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.
Jonathan Billinger — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Madley Communications Centre is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Madley Communications Centre is BT Group's earth satellite tracking station, between Madley and Kingstone, Herefordshire, England.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
The site first went into service in September 1978 on the site of the disused World War II airfield RAF Madley, built in 1940.
Architecture
There are over 65 dishes, the smallest being 90 cm with the three main dishes each having a diameter of 32 m and weighing 290 tonnes. Madley 1, the first of the dishes, tracks a satellite about 22236 mi away, positioned over the Equator in geostationary orbit. The site covers a range from 66 degrees east to 314 degrees east, covering two thirds of the planet.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 52.0320, -2.8405
- District
- Herefordshire, County of
- Parish
- Kingstone
- Postcode
- HR2 9HT
- Parliamentary constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire
- Established
- 2015
Sources
- wikidata: Q6728264 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Madley Communications Centre (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Madley Communications Centre?
- Madley Communications Centre is in Mid Wales, United Kingdom (postcode HR2 9HT), in the parish of Kingstone.
- When was Madley Communications Centre built?
- Built or established in 2015.
- Who owns Madley Communications Centre?
- Madley Communications Centre is owned by BT Group.
- How do I get to Madley Communications Centre?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode HR2 9HT. It sits within the Hereford and South Herefordshire parliamentary constituency.