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List of bell ringing organizations

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ18348445 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a list of bell ringing organizations

List of change ringing organizations

Below is a list of all currently known ringing societies around the world. This includes societies affiliated to the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers – identified by the number of representative members:

Aberystwyth University Society

Aldenham College Youths

Ancient Society of College Youths (4 CC Reps)

Antient Free and Accepted Masons of England - Clavis Lodge No.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 72-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around List, bell and ringing.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18348445. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of bell ringing organizations” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.