Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers

The authoritative guide for details of bells and change ringing practices in towers around the world.

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4 members of the Dove Team attended the 2025 DAC Bell Advisors' Conference in Leeds. It included a presentation concerning Dove and proposals for a review of bells listed for preservation. @ccringing

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We have improved the way we display the date of a bell. Where undated, we display the founder's period of activity. When submitting an estimated date for a bell please don't provide anything outside the given period or alert us if you believe the period needs correcting.

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We are pleased to announce the inclusion from today of LIGHTWEIGHT RINGS in Dove, which includes the portable rings. @ccringing

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Pleased to welcome Ryan Faulkner-Hatt to the Dove Team. Ryan is a young ringer from Prittlewell in Essex has a particular interest in engineering and bell history. He has joined the team to work on a new project, more of which will be announced in due course.

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Great news about the £4.68m Lottery grant to the @churchofengland Conservation Grants Scheme supporting bell conservation & other projects! Looking forward to seeing how the CBC works with this (I am on its Bells Committee). https://t.co/bCT2sBagKz @ccringing

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4 members of the Dove Team at today's annual meeting of the Central Council of Change Ringers in Exeter. @ccringing @DodgeNeal @dickonlove

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@philtremain @dickonlove But that wouldn't be true to Ron's book. In practice you can do all of that now by changing the filters.

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The Great Bells of the British Isles have now been incorporated into the Dove Database! Seen here: https://t.co/Ev4Y690RnC @ccringing

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New mapping functionality announced! Map towers by tenor weight or by numbers of ringing reports in BellBoard! https://t.co/BRKFylRFmn @ccringing @theringingworld

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Excited to launch my redesigned website on the Church Bells of Kent. Seeks to be a useful antiquarian resource in this field. https://t.co/hAy0qAcJWK

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@spil030 @St_Matts_Bells Suggest you email the contact on this CCCBR page: https://t.co/fabDlT21NO

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DOVE FOUNDRY FOCUS for Nov 2023
Projects marked as complete in the month, including Tedburn St Mary here. https://t.co/6tYe51xmCD

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We are pleased to welcome Kye Leaver to the team as our newest Dove Clerk! @KyeRinger

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We've announced a major update in the way frames are recorded. https://t.co/uIXjn4W7UA @ccringing

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We are pleased to welcome Neal Dodge to the Dove Team. He has already started processing updates, specialising in particular on the queue of frame updates. @DodgeNeal @ccringing

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Bellframe information can now be interrogated on Dove's Guide https://t.co/l73kzkQKol @ccringing

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We are sorry to hear of the death of Dove Master, the Rev'd John Baldwin. https://t.co/mH5lK6hHzV

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Very pleased to welcome our newest member of the Dove Team. Lewis Benfield from Leics, has joined as a Dove Clerk to help analyse and update Dove with some of the many updates we are gratefully receiving.

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Over 400 edits to Dove this weekend.

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A new Dove feature to customise tower selections has been launched. Instructions on the home page. @ccringing