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| Facilities of Old North Berks Towers with 3 or more ringable bells A summary of facilities to help you plan your outing. |
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Most towers in this list are ringable for full-circle ringing. Towers in other conditions such as chiming only can be found at the bottom of this page. An explanation of the abbreviations used in the table below can be found be clicking on any underlined column heading. |
| Tower | Dedication | No of Bells |
Weight of Tenor |
Draught | Loud | State | Ringing Chamber Access |
Last Restored |
Facilities | Parking | Other |
| Abingdon | St. Helen | 10 | 16 | 3 | R | Spiral staircase 35 steps |   - Key in tower or in church hall |
Public E. St Helen's car park | Simulator ‘The Anchor’ |
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| Abingdon | St. Michael | 3 | 2¼ | C | |||||||
| Abingdon | St. Nicolas | 6 | 7½ | long | 2 | R | Spiral staircase | 1933 |
key in vestry |
public car park |
‘The Punch Bowl’ |
| Appleford | SS. Peter & Paul | 6 | 8 | short | 5 | R | Spiral staircase (26steps) external door |
1886 | waste land by church | 2 listed bells ‘The Carpenter’s Arms’ |
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| Appleton | Balscote Ring | 12 | 1½ | short | RP | Ground floor | on road | no stays or sliders | |||
| Appleton | St. Laurence | 10 | 13 | short | 3 | R | Ladder Trap door |
1977 |
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church drive | ‘The Plough’ |
| Ardington | Holy Trinity | 6 | 6½ | U | GF | on road | ‘The Boar’s head’ | ||||
| Aston Tirrold | St. Michael | 6 | 12 | 4 | R | Spiral staircase (20 steps) | on road | ||||
| Blewbury | St. Michael & All Angels | 8 | 19 | 4 | R | Spiral staircase 39 steps |
1998 | |
 N of church |
‘The Red Lion’ | |
| Brightwell-cum-Sotwell | St. Agatha | 8 | 10¾ | 3 | R | GF | 1969 | (In village hall) |
on road & village hall |
‘Red Lion’ | |
| Childrey | St. Mary | 8 | 12 | long guides |
2 | R | GF | 2005 | lane to church | ‘The Hatchet’ | |
| Chilton | All Saints | 6 | 7½ | 3 | R | Spiral staircase (12 steps) |
2000 |
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‘The Rose & Crown’ | |
| Cholsey | St. Mary | 8 | 10¼ | 3 | R | Spiral staircase + a few steps |
1978 |
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by church | pubs in village steam trains |
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| Clifton Hampden | St. Michael | 5 | 6¾ | HD | ‘The Barley Mow’
of ‘Three men in a boat’. Thames Path |
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| Culham | St. Paul | 6 | 6¾ | UA | ‘Red Lion’ | ||||||
| Cumnor | St. Michael | 8 | 13¼ | long | 2 | R | GF | 1988 | school car park | ||
| Denchworth | St. James | 4 | 4¾ | UA | ‘The Fox’ | ||||||
| Didcot | All Saints | 3 | 5¼ | long with guides | R | GF | on road | steam trains | |||
| Drayton | St. Peter | 8 | >9½ | long guides |
2 | R | GF | 1965 |
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church lane |
Pub ‘The Wheatsheaf’ |
| East Hagbourne | St. Andrew | 8 | 21½ | short | 4 | R | Spiral staircase | 1928 |
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village hall |
‘Fleur de Lys’, simulator |
| East Hendred | St. Augustine of Canterbury | 6 | 22 | 2 | R | Spiral staircase ~12 steps |
old clock, ‘The Wheatsheaf’ |
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| Harwell | St. Matthew | 8 | 16½ | 3 | R | Spiral staircase (29 steps) |
1932 |
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by church | easy belfry access ‘The White Hart’ |
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| Letcombe Bassett | St. Michael | 3 | 5 | 3 | R | GF | by church | rung only on special occasions | |||
| Letcombe Regis | St. Andrew | 6 | 8 | 5 | R | sloping ladder (26 steps), Trap door | 1979 | on road | ‘The Greyhound’ | ||
| Little Wittenham | St. Peter | 5 | 5½ | 4 | R | Spiral staircase 25 steps |
opposite church |
Day’s Lock Wittenham clumps |
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| Lockinge | All Saints | 4 | 8½ | U | 2 listed bells | ||||||
| Long Wittenham | S.M.V. | 6 | 9 | Long | 3 | R | GF | on road to church | Pendon Museum ‘The Vine’ |
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| Marcham | All Saints | 6 | 8¼ | 3 | RA | GF | 1988 | |
by church | ‘The Crown’ | |
| Milton | St. Blaise | 8 | 7 | Long guides |
3 | R | GF | new 2002 |
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on road | ‘The Admiral Benbow’ Milton House |
| North Moreton | All Saints | 5 | 12 | long | R | GF | on road | mediæval stained glass | |||
| North Stoke | St. Mary | 3 | 7½ | R | GF | ||||||
| Radley | St. James the Great | 6 | 6½ | 4 | R | narrow metal Spiral staircase to gallery (13 steps) |
1952 | in church hall | church hall car park |
Can have simulator on one bell ‘Bowyer Arms’ |
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| Sparsholt | Holy Cross | 4 | 10½ | R | GF | old wooden carvings | |||||
| Steventon | St. Michael & All Angels | 6 | 11½ | long | 2 | R | GF | 1932 | in church hall |
by church | ‘The North Star’ |
| Sunningwell | St. Leonard | 6 | 8¾ | 3 | R | Spiral staircase (39 steps up), 9 wooden steps down | 1995/6 | village hall car park opposite church |
easy belfry access ‘The Flowing Well’ |
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| Sutton Courtenay | All Saints | 8 | 12¼ | 3 | R | stairs 13 steps Ladder 12 rungs, trapdoor |
village green by church | ‘George & Dragon’, Thames Path, George Orwell grave | |||
| Wallingford | St. Mary-le-More | 10 | 19 | 4 | R | Spiral staircase | 2003 | |
public car park |
pubs in square, castle ruins | |
| Wantage | SS. Peter & Paul | 8 | 21¾ | Short | 4 | R | Spiral staircase (44) | 1938 | |
public car park |
Betjeman poem, pubs in Market Square |
| West Hanney | St. James the Great | 6 | 18¼ | long guides |
3 | R | GF | 1950’s | grass by gate | ‘The Plough’ | |
| West Hendred | Holy Trinity | 6 | 8 | long | 3 | R | GF | on road | Some ropes near wall |
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