Durham University Observatory — Wikipedia

The Durham University Observatory is a weather observatory owned and operated by the University of Durham. It is a Grade II listed building located at Potters Bank, Durham and was founded in 1839 initially as an astronomical and meteorological observatory (owing to the need to calculate refraction from the air temperature) by Temple Chevallier, until 1937 when the observatory moved purely to meteorological recording. The observatory's current director is Professor Tim Burt of the Geography Department, who was also Master of Hatfield College. After the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford (from...