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 (and subject to a set of Conventions) 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 'pNBR').

The printed Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers is available to buy. Click here for more details.

4 Mar Have you noticed?
Have you noticed that when one has opened the Details page for a UK tower that the grid reference is shown in a green fount? This indicates that the reference itself is actually a clickable link. Try it, for on doing just that you are taken to "a search form" set up in such a way so that one can perform a search also for nearby towers within a stated radius (in miles from that reference point).

We found it useful recently when, at an event which included publicity about bells and ringing, someone asked us which churches in North Wales possess a ring of bells - and so we used Llandudno as our search centre and used a 35 mile radius.

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