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Merseybells provides a calendar, an email list, details of methods and more for bell ringers across Liverpool, Wirral, all of Merseyside, south west Lancashire and north west Cheshire. If you don't know what ringing (or campanology, to use the grand term) is about, please look at our 'What is bell ringing?' page.

Towers in the geographical area of the Anglican Diocese of Liverpool are supported by the Liverpool and Wigan branches of the Lancashire Association of Change Ringers (LACR). Towers in Wirral fall in the Wirral branch of the Chester Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers (CDG). Ringing at St Francis Xavier, Everton (SFX) is organised by the Liverpool Universities Society of Change Ringers (LUSCR), who welcome students and staff from all institutes of higher education across Merseyside and nearby parts of Cheshire and Lancashire.


There are towers in the Liverpool and Wigan branch areas at Aughton (Christ Church), Aughton (St Michael), Bootle, Childwall, Coppull, Douglas-in-Parbold, Everton (St Francis Xavier (SFX)), Farnworth (Widnes), Garston, Great Crosby, Hale, Halewood, Halsall, Hindley, Huyton, Liverpool (Pier Head), Liverpool Cathedral, Liverpool Municipal Building, Much Woolton, Newton-le-Willows, Ormskirk, Prescot, Rainford, Rainhill (St Ann), Rainhill (St Bartholomew), Sefton, Southport (Christ Church), Southport (Crossens), Southport (Emmanuel), St Helens (Eccleston), St Helens (St Helen, the Parish Church), Standish, Tuebrook, Upholland, Walton-on-the-Hill, West Derby, Wigan (All Saints, the Parish Church), Wigan (Poolstock) and Winwick.


Towers in the Wirral branch area are at Bebington, Bidston, Bromborough, Burton, Capenhurst, Eastham, Heswall, Moreton, Neston, Oxton (Birkenhead), Port Sunlight, Rock Ferry, Shotwick, Thurstaston, Upton, Wallasey (St Hilary), Wallasey (Liscard), Wallasey (St Nicholas), West Kirby and Woodchurch.


LUSCR welcomes students and staff from institutions including the University of Chester, Edge Hill University, Liverpool University, Liverpool Hope University, the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU).

Merseybells hopes to provide information for ringers across all or part of the  Boroughs of Halton, Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Warrington, West Lancashire and Wirral, the City of Liverpool, and West Cheshire and Chester.

Inclusion of towers and institutions in these lists should not be taken to imply any

• association with church bodies, ringing associations or branches;
• availability for ringers;
• degree of ringability;
• approval of, or link to, this website.

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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday - see calendar on this website for Liverpool Cathedral

Monday to Friday practice details are as held on the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers'  (CCCBR's) Dove database, and are for towers within a 20 mile radius of Liverpool Cathedral - road distances will be further, particularly if your  route involves crossing the Mersey. Practices may change at short notice, particularly on or near bank holidays and during Holy Week.





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