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 their exact location, satellite navigation data, and details of changes to entries as they occur. That scope has been further extended by the addition of data for individual bells and the frame(s) in which they hang 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.

1 Aug Holiday period
In the course of the next few weeks there will be several occasions when neither the Dove or the pNBR webpages will be updated as frequently nor as immediately as has become usual. Please understand that this does not necessarily imply that your valued e-mails will not have arrived, but that we are probably away from our desk for a day or ten (or even more). You can rest assured that those which have arrived will indeed be dealt with in due course: so please be patient.

As always, we will try to use the absence of the Edit Details facility to indicate when e-mails addressed to Dovemaster are likely not to receive a timely response.

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