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≡Dove’s Guide for Church Bell Ringers
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Download data

Please read the notes below on the availability of data before downloading these files.
dove.csv, dove.txt A list of all full-circle rings in Dove. Customised versions of this are available from the tower search page.
towers.csv A list of all collections of bells in Dove, including full-circle rings, chimes and carillons. Customised versions are available from the tower search page.
SatNav POIs List of rings as SatNav points of interest (POIs) are available in a variety of formats. Customised versions can be produced on the tower search page.
changes.csv, changes.txt A detailed list of all updates since 1 Jan 2019. Customised versions of this are available from the updates page.
founders.csv A list of founders with at least one bell listed in Dove. Customised versions of this are available from the founders page.
bells.csv All bells listed in Dove. Customised versions of this are available from the list of bells.
frames.csv All frames listed in Dove. Customised versions of this are available from the list of frames.
regions.csv Details of the region hierarchy and abbreviations used in Dove.
AddNtrs.txt Each record of this file identifies the Dove ring with an alternative name used for that tower. This is also included in dove.csv.
newpks.txt A complete list of legacy alphanumeric Dove IDs which changed in the Dove data file. Use of alphanumeric IDs is deprecated – use the numeric tower IDs instead.

Availaility of data

Data is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. By downloading any of these files, you are accepting the terms of this licence.

You are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and to adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. However, you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the Central Council endorses you or your use. If you remix, transform, or build upon the data, you must distribute your contributions to the data under the same license as the original.

File formats

CSV files are comma-separated values, which can be opened in a spreadsheet. If you fetching this data automatically for use in an application, be aware that the number and order of the fields may change from time to time, but we will endeavour to keep the column headings stable.

The text files whose names are in grey use a legacy backslash-delimited format, use of which is deprecated, and which we will eventually stop supporting.

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Content: Dove Team – Programming: Richard Smith & Sid Baldwin.
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