[Tagging] tag man_made=campanile to be replaced with man_made=belfry?

John Sturdy jcg.sturdy at gmail.com
Fri Feb 7 21:10:34 UTC 2014


On 2/7/14, Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Or perhaps belfry:bells=8 to indicate the number of
> bells in the peal, or belfry:tenor=1000 for the weight of the largest
> bell in kg (typical UK)?

The weight of the tenor is significant to ringers (I'm a lapsed ringer
myself) but giving it kg would be very alien to (British) ringers; the
convention is to give it as hundredweight, quarters and pounds.

That being said, I see that Dove's Guide (the publication listing
change-ringing towers) now gives kg as well; for example,
http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/dove.php?searchString=Cambridge%2C+OLEM&Submit=+Go+



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