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Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers
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This is the online version of Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, the authoritative source for current
information about rings of bells since the first printed edition appeared in 1950. Unlike the printed book, however, here we provide full-featured searching, links to mapping facilities to show the exact
location of towers, satellite navigation data, and details of changes to entries as they occur. That scope has been even further
extended by the addition of data for individual bells as a step towards a prototype National Bell Register (the 'proto-NBR').
 The printed Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers is available to buy. Click here for more details.
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Site News
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10 May
Mary Bliss, RIP
The sad news has arrived that Mary Bliss died on 9 May. Mary, a Sharpe Trustee, picked up the work that Frederick Sharpe had started on Gloucestershire bells and her influence on bell work in that part of the UK was significant.
The funeral arrangements are now outlined on the RW website and on The Sharpe Trustees' webpage and ringers are invited to join in the ringing at Cirencester before and after the service and to refreshments at The Highwayman near Mary's home between Birdlip and Cirencester on the A417.
29 Apr
Dove 10 available
The new edition, Edition 10, of Dove is now available from CC Publications. Click here for more details
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Dove Updates
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Changes to details (only some of which will update their Dove entry):
21 May
· Bristol, Ss P'ip'n'J, C Bris
Ringing has resumed
· Dilhorne, Staffs
Ring key amended
· Leiston, Suffolk
Tenor wt amended (was 20-2-3)
· Shirland, Derbys
Bells now ringable; re-dedicated 20...
· Staines-upon-Thames, S Mary, Surrey
Placename officially amended
· Staines-upon-Thames, S Peter
Placename officially amended
· Sudbury, S Peter, Suffolk
4th reported as being ringable (ie,...
· Swallowfield, Berks
PN is Wed (not Thu)
20 May
· Bishopstone (SU28), Wilts
Apparently, ringing no longer suspe...
· Boston, Lincs
Note added about two stairacses to ...
· Knaresborough, N Yorks
Presence of simulator noted
· North Hayling, Hants
u/r added, absence of stays and sli...
· North Hayling, Hants
Chancel (GF) ringing posn, st line ...
18 May
· Skelton in Cleveland, N Yorks
PN info added
· Westwell, Kent
3rd is cracked
17 May
· Flitwick, Beds
URL added
16 May
· Shanklin, IoW
Ringing suspended until further not...
· Waterloo, Gr London
PN info added (but CHECK first)
15 May
· Aston Rowant, Oxon
GF added
· Bolton, Halliwell, Gr Man
PN (temp) removed: to be decided so...
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proto-NBR Updates
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Recent updates to the
prototype National Bell Register:
22 May
· Ramsey, Cambs
21 May
· Dilhorne, Staffs
· Kirk Deighton, N Yorks
· Leiston, Suffolk
· North Hayling, Hants
· Rise, ER Yorks
· Swine, ER Yorks
· York, Spurriergate Centre
19 May
· Maldon, S Mary, Essex
18 May
· Westwell, Kent
16 May
· Bermondsey, Gr London
· Ickleford, Herts
· London, Hart Street
· Pontypridd, RhonddaCT
· Radyr, Cardiff
· Ruthin, Denbighs
· Waterloo, Gr London
15 May
· Aston Rowant, Oxon
· Cromer, Norfolk
· Egloskerry, Cornwall
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Details incorrect?
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If (and only if) you are absolutely confident that the data we are showing is incorrect for a tower for which you have special interest or responsibility or knowledge, AND you have also ensured that the matter is not addressed in our FAQs, then do let us have the correct detail. Please refer to the two relevant pages (Description, and Editing) for details about our conventions and how to submit any necessary changes.
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