<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><font size="3">As a record keeper using a card index system for quarter peals, I find that a number of towers use their local names when, no </font>doubt<font size="3">, they were then small villages.</font></span></div><div><span><font size="3"> May I suggest an amendment to this list by;</font></span></div><div><span><font size="3"> 1) deleting the word 'Birmingham'. These towers are far from the city center.</font></span></div><div><span><font size="3"> 2) Delete 'Burton' [upon Trent]. Winshill appears to be outside the conurbation area of Burton on the map.</font></span></div><div><span><font size="3"> 3) Delete 'Manchester'. Northenden being outside the M60 circular.</font></span></div><div><span><font size="3"> 4) Delete 'Reading'. Caversham being on the North side of
the Thames while Reading is South.</font></span></div><div><span><font size="3"> 5) Delete 'Ipsley'. Redditch St Peter is quite sufficient. </font></span></div><div><span><font size="3"> 6) Delete 'Stourbridge'. Amblecote is some way from Stourbridge.</font></span></div><div><span><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><font size="3">I suggest these alterations to Dove as these are these names which appear in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Ringing World </span><span>more often than</span> not. There may be other locations where local names are given which could take priority. An example is South Church, Co Durham. RW p800. Find this in Dove!</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">AAJB</font></div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div> <div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times
new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tim Jackson <Tim@JwWMJru-vumiR2CuZyuGEpDdVTq9Lxx1W3-bGAQAGblmaBm5ilgViVKzG8yRWSKy8-RXvsnCVM_Ieu86dqi4DQk.yahoo.invalid.co.uk><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 6 August 2012, 20:43<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Bell Historians] Re: Counties<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv227763801">
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<div>>>Posted by: "RJ Johnston, Geographical Sciences" <br>
>>Good to know we're consistent!<br>
>>Which way do the arrows run in your table?<br>
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I'm on digest and I didn't receive my own attachment so here is the list<br>
again, this time with a heading row.<br>
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So, for example, I found that Penge was incorrectly listed as the<br>
traditional county of Kent and this has now been corrected to the<br>
traditional county of Surrey.<br>
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Tim<br>
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Tower: Was incorrectly listed as -> Now correctly listed as<br>
Beckford: Worcestershire -> Gloucestershire<br>
Birmingham, Handsworth: Warwickshire -> Staffordshire<br>
Birmingham, Harborne: Warwickshire -> Staffordshire<br>
Birmingham, King's Norton: Warwickshire -> Worcestershire<br>
Birmingham, Moseley, S Anne: Warwickshire -> Worcestershire<br>
Birmingham, Moseley, S Mary: Warwickshire -> Worcestershire<br>
Birmingham, Northfield: Warwickshire -> Worcestershire<br>
Birmingham, Perry Barr: Warwickshire -> Staffordshire<br>
Birmingham, Selly Oak: Warwickshire -> Worcestershire<br>
Birmingham, Yardley: Warwickshire -> Worcestershire<br>
Burton, Winshill: Staffordshire -> Derbyshire<br>
Chaceley: Gloucestershire -> Worcestershire<br>
Chardstock: Devon -> Dorset<br>
Childswickham: Worcestershire -> Gloucestershire<br>
Churchstanton: Somerset -> Devon<br>
Clifford Chambers: Warwickshire -> Gloucestershire<br>
Damerham: Hampshire -> Wiltshire<br>
Gorleston on Sea: Norfolk -> Suffolk<br>
Great Chishill: Cambridgeshire -> Essex<br>
Hawkchurch: Devon -> Dorset<br>
Heydon: Cambridgeshire -> Essex<br>
Hinton on the Green: Worcestershire -> Gloucestershire<br>
Kemble: Gloucestershire -> Wiltshire<br>
Kemerton: Worcestershire -> Gloucestershire<br>
Kensworth: Bedfordshire -> Hertfordshire<br>
Long Newnton: Gloucestershire -> Wiltshire<br>
Lower Quinton: Warwickshire -> Gloucestershire<br>
Manchester, Northenden: Lancashire -> Cheshire<br>
Martin: Hampshire -> Wiltshire<br>
Mathon: Herefordshire -> Worcestershire<br>
Mossley, Roughtown: Lancashire -> Yorkshire<br>
Netherseal: Derbyshire -> Leicestershire<br>
Newmarket, All Ss: Suffolk -> Cambridgeshire<br>
North Petherwin: Cornwall -> Devon<br>
Overseal: Derbyshire -> Leicestershire<br>
Pebworth: Worcestershire -> Gloucestershire<br>
Penge: Kent -> Surrey<br>
Reading, Caversham: Berkshire -> Oxfordshire<br>
Redditch, Ipsley: Worcestershire -> Warwickshire<br>
Redmarley D'Abitot: Gloucestershire -> Worcestershire<br>
Sandford Orcas: Dorset -> Somerset<br>
Shalbourne: Wiltshire -> Berkshire<br>
Sheriffhales: Shropshire -> Staffordshire<br>
South Mymms: Hertfordshire -> Middlesex<br>
Staunton (SO72): Gloucestershire -> Worcestershire<br>
Stokenchurch: Buckinghamshire -> Oxfordshire<br>
Stourbridge, Amblecote: Worcestershire -> Staffordshire<br>
Taxal: Derbyshire -> Cheshire<br>
Towersey: Oxfordshire -> Buckinghamshire<br>
Trent: Dorset -> Somerset<br>
Upper Arley: Worcestershire -> Staffordshire<br>
Wambrook: Somerset -> Dorset<br>
Welford on Avon: Warwickshire -> Gloucestershire<br>
Werrington: Cornwall -> Devon<br>
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