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.

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 outlined on The Sharpe Trustees' website and ringers are invited to join in the ringing at Cirencester before and after the service.

29 Apr Dove 10 available
We have learnt that the new edition of Dove is now available from CC Publications. Click here for more details

3 Apr VAT on alterations to listed churches
Your attention is drawn to a petition to urge the UK Chancellor to reconsider the extension of the standard rate of VAT (currently zero rated) to alterations to listed places of worship.

If this succeeds it will help most bell restoration funds to be able to support more schemes, and so it is in the interests of all ringers to support this petition and to do so before it closes at 09:45 on 30/06/2012.

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