Audio by Adam

English eccentricity, tradition, esthetics, mathematics, and a bit of obsessive-compulsiveness combine in the English art of changeringing or bellringing. I traveled to County Somerset in the heart of King Arthur country to get the lowdown and had a blast.

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Tags: bells, changeringing, church, England, folkways, rural England, Somerset

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