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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 (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.
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Site News
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6 Apr
Dove Updates
Today has seen an unusually large number of Dove updates.
Do remember that you can see Dove updates going back quite some time by clicking on the link entitled Details of recent Dove updates in the Data Files section in the lh column alongside.
17 Mar
Bell Founders page
Carl Zimmerman has suggested that it would be both helpful and interesting to learn the date range of examples that the pNBR holds for the work of any one bell founder. (This is as well as showing the official founding period within the SearchName column, as at present.) Accordingly we have made this change as from today (and the associated Help page has been amended appropriately.)
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Dove Updates
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Changes to details (only some of which will update their Dove entry):
16 Apr
· Ellesmere, Shrops
Restoration work completed; presenc...
· Ellesmere, Shrops
Bells now tuned diatonically so tun...
· Ellesmere, Shrops
Revised tenor weight provided (note...
· West Tarring, W Sussex
Temporary suspension of ringing lif...
15 Apr
· Whaddon, Bucks
1-6: frame id added; frame info added
14 Apr
· Fulham, Gr London
Rehung, new fittings+frame; tenor n...
13 Apr
· Pitney, Som
Augmented to 6; no longer in Bb but...
11 Apr
· Barkby, Leics
No longer GF: now rung from (new) f...
· Hilperton, Wilts
Availability of toilet facility noted
· Skeffington, Leics
No longer GF: now rung from a gallery
10 Apr
· Huish Episcopi, Som
7th founder indication from Bob Par...
· Littleport, Cambs
Practising (now Tue) has restarted
09 Apr
· Acton, Gr London
Gudgeon replaced(S Jakeman) and 6th...
· Chislehurst, Annunciation
Tower is detached
07 Apr
· Bradwell on Sea, Essex
URL added
· Burnham on Crouch, Essex
URL added
· Great Glemham, Suffolk
No longer GF: now rung from a gallery
· Purleigh, Essex
URL added
· Southminster, Essex
URL added
· Stow on the Wold, Glos
Indication of toilet facility added
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pNBR Updates
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Recent updates to the pNBR:
16 Apr
· Bolton, All Souls, Gr Man
· Ellesmere, Shrops
· Pitney, Som
15 Apr
· Great Mitton, Lancs
14 Apr
· Davenham, Cheshire
· Fulham, Gr London
· Woolley, W Yorks
11 Apr
· Stirling, Stirling
09 Apr
· Eccleston, Lancs
07 Apr
· Rickling, Essex
· Scropton, Derbys
06 Apr
· Dumfries, DumfGallwy
· Haselbech, Northants
· Hatfield, S Yorks
· Herringswell, Suffolk
· Hoghton, Lancs
· Leyland, Lancs
· Manchester, Gorton, Gr Man
· Tenterden, Kent
05 Apr
· Aberavon, Neath PT
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Details incorrect or incomplete?
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If (and only if) you are absolutely confident that the data we are showing is incorrect or incomplete 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 for this aspect of our data and how to submit any necessary changes.
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