Akenfield, (Charsfield)

[Roderic Bickerton]

Been playing an audio book(soundings 3198) 
"Akenfield" by Ronald Blythe. One chapter, about 
1/3 way through is by far the best piece i have 
ever come across about ringing, covering roughly 
from 1900 to WW2.
marvellously evocative.
Put me to wondering when when Charsfield ceised 
to be a ring of 5. they are not in my '68 dove, 
and the web page shows a broken bell, very 
exposed, at ground level.
Its cirtainly no time recent, possibly before 
WW1, so the section in the book is more about 
ringers and ringing in the aria.