Main Branch site:
The Branch web site contains up to date information about ringing in North Bucks. Much of the information formerly in this site can now be found there.
Latest on this site:
Correction of Old Bradwell harmonics and trapezoid measurements and addition of inscriptions and photos of bells - April 2025
Adjustment of trapezoid image scaling to show top of long waisted bells - April 2025
New photos of Emberton's bells, treble inscription and 1899-1901 timeline adjusted - May 2025
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Woughton on the Green | The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary | 6 |
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Fastest peal
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Longest peal(s)
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Branch events here:
January 17, 2015 | Branch Practice | |
October 5, 2012 | Rounds and Call Change Practice | |
March 6, 2010 | AGM | and ringing until 8:30 |
December 3, 2005 | Quarterly Meeting | Mince Pies & Cups of Tea |
December 19, 2003 | Branch Practice | |
September 21, 2001 | Branch Practice | Belfast S Minor |
December 4, 1999 | Quarterly Meeting | |
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Description | Another of our most photogenic churches in an apparently rural setting. |
Approx Date | 1999 |
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Who has circled the tower to peals:
Who has rung the most peals here:
Albert Fleet | 4 | May 6, 1933 |
Charles W Smith | 4 | May 6, 1933 |
Edmund J Hobbs | 4 | May 6, 1933 |
Horace H Smith | 3 | May 6, 1933 |
B Douglas Hird | 2 | September 25, 2005 |
George F Amor | 2 | May 6, 1933 |
Horace P Giles | 2 | May 20, 1929 |
George E Green | 1 | December 31, 1978 |
Terry J Streeter | 1 | May 28, 1992 |
Arthur E Sharman | 1 | August 31, 1927 |
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The figures below show the difference, in cents, between each bell and what it should be to be in tune with the tenor.
A positive figure shows that the bell is sharp, a negative figure shows that it is flat. There are 100 cents between notes on the scale.
History of bells in this tower:
| | | | | 1 of 6, Mears & Stainbank, 1926 |
| | | | | 2 of 6, Mears & Stainbank, 1926 |
1 of 4, Anthony Chandler, 1653 | | | | 1 of 4, Gillett & Co, 1887 | 3 of 6, Gillett & Co, 1887 |
| | 2 of 4, Richard III Chandler, 1717 | | 2 of 4, Gillett & Co, 1887 | 4 of 6, Gillett & Co, 1887 |
| 3 of 4, Richard III Chandler, 1701 | | | | 5 of 6, Richard III Chandler, 1701 |
| | | 4 of 4, Pack & Chapman, 1771 | | 6 of 6, Pack & Chapman, 1771 |
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Classification from "Bellframes - A Practical Guide to Inspection and Recording - C J Pickford 1993"
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