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.

2 Jan Information for Dove
We are always most grateful for bona fide updates to Dove and to pNBR entries. By bona fide we mean items supplied by people with first-hand knowledge about the ring concerned.

What we are much less confident about is our acting upon information which has been gleaned from social media and then passed on by what are effectively third parties. In such instances there is a distinct possibility that the full story is not transmitted to us, and even - however unlikely - a chance that someone is using such a route to mislead (through us) the ringing community as a whole.

So, please, DO let us have changes to what we show at present if it is no longer fully correct in some regard. But as we ask in our Conventions, do please also tell us your connection with / repsonsibility for that tower so that we can get back to you should we feel we need further information.

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