Bell ringing is where a team of people pull on huge ropes to ring the bells inside church towers. According to the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers... "The origins of what we call change ringing lie in the sixteenth century when church bells began to be hung with a full wheel enabling the bell to swing in a full circle and back again. This gave ringers control of their bell, which allowed sets of bells (rings) to be rung in a continuously changing pattern. Music is created by moving bells up and down the ringing order to a defined sequence known as a method".

Swindons "Magic Roundabout" was studied by the Red Army General staff during the Cold War..They genuinely thought it was some sort of tank trap designed to confuse them!!!

They seemed to have missed Nettle eating, Welly Wanging, Conkers, Worm Charming and Gurning

Legit the only American youtuber who looks things up instead of waiting for random people to comment

The silent acting is called 'mime' not 'pantomime', and Im really holding back the ferocity with which I need to point out that Sainsbury doesnt have a 'T' in it.

The bell ringing refers to church bells and the competition is between teams of bell ringers from different churches in the UK there used to be bell ringers in the church behind our house and they would practice one or two days a week usually the bell ringers would then retire to the pub next door for liquid refreshment 😂 The church bells would be rung on Sundays before and after the morning service and at weddings

Bells. The photos of various churches is the give away. Many churches have 6/8 bells hanging in their towers/spires. Each bell is very heavy, some weigh tons. Ropes are attached to the bells and hang all the way down to the Bell Loft, or down to ground level, where each ringer hauls on a rope to move a bell. The first bell to move is the tenor bell accompanied by the words "Tenor going". The bells can be rung in various different orders to make different peals. Bell ringers ring every Sunday and for other days of religious importance and special occasions. Having bells rung for weddings is very popular. A muffled tenor bell is rung for funerals as they did around the country (including in my village church) for the old Queen's funeral. Bell ringing competitions between churches is a big deal. Not weird at all.

'Aspensions' should be 'aspersions'.

I do love your persistence in understanding things, and looking up more information. Keep it up.

I love seeing an Americans face when they see Swindons roundabout. It's the most confused face you'll ever see 😂

Beamish museum is amazing! Ive visited a couple of times. Recently its been expanded to include a 1950's town.

Pantomime is a classic British tradition you should look into. It's a family stage show at Christmas featuring adaptations of fairy tales. They are really cheesy and camp and feature a lot of drag.

Mate, seriously, you have to take the time to read things properly! Fossil hunting is not a "sport", it said "spots"!! 😉

I love the differences in bell ringing in Europe. In the UK you often have an octave of bells in a church and there are whole groups of volunteers that make it their mission to make the most stunning melodies. I live near a church and I LOVE listening to them practice every Tuesday evening. They then put their skills into good use before Sunday service, at weddings, and occasionally for national events (I suspect the bellringers will be out in force for the Coronation next month). A lot of the bellringers are otherwise retired from work, and as such it's a skill that is in constant threat of dying out unless they can attract new people. I would definitely suggest looking up videos of UK bellringing on KZfaq. In Italy, you might get an octave of bells but they will ring them at random in a chaotic mess which creates a pretty unholy noise (all the birds start screeching and dogs howling which doesn't help lol). In France, you often get a single bell which frankly sounds like a funeral's going on. Might not be true of each "whole" country of France and Italy, but certainly the places I've lived (Alsace and Lake Maggiore).

bog snorkelling is simply swimming underwater in a muddy (and worse) ditch over a certain length, best time wins. bell ringing is campanology, just look that up.

I would imagine the "Bell Ringing" (campanology) probably means ringing the old Church bells in melodius sequences for various events?.

Iv been to beamish living museum also know as beamish open air museum. It’s an old town where you can see the original post office and how they used to transfer money, original shops form the past, a candy store where you can see old fashioned candy being made the original way, they had someone putting the metal shoes on horses, they had a room with the originals of different surnames and much more. Very interesting place.

I love all these traditions, they are not new to me being from Tasmania, but watching your reaction will be fun! 😁 Penelope Keith did a series on English villages, that was entertaining! There is also Escape to the Country, Agatha Christie movies, Father Brown, Morse, Foyle's War! Most of England has really kept its charm, I love to hear the church bells, and to see the Morris Dancing, Green Men, Harvest Festivals! There's also Warwick Jousting, Robin Hood, Aylesbury, Saxon village, Steam train rides, Jack the Ripper, the Templars, Highland Games! 🤗

First time I've encountered someone who doesn't know the word incongruous

The Lake District, a mountainous area in NW England, has a naturally occurring deposit of graphite used to make pencils. Found in the 1500s, a unique find then, it was first used to mark animals by the locals and was quickly turned into a pencil industry in nearby Keswick.

The panto jokes were really lost on him 😂

The pantomime is a play held at Christmas. They are usually re-telling of fairytales E.g. Cinderella, Aladdin, dick Whittington & his cat. Usually there will be one character where someone is playing a character of the opposite sex to them (e.g. the fairy god mother is played by a man). There will also be gag jokes in the play where the audience will call out e.g. the villains might be sneaking up and the audience will say “they’re behind you” and the good character will go in a circle and the baddy will run off stage. This will happen a few times before the good guy finds the baddy.

If you have 7 bells in a church tower a 7 bell peal would take over 3 hours to do, basically you ring ever bell in every possible combination IE bells 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 then 1234576 etc

I've never been to Swindon, but I have driven around "The Plough" in Hemel Hempstead, which is very similar to the Magic Roundabout.

Bell-ringing (campanology) is ringing church bells. Lots of places around Europe make an art of ringing church bells, but in other countries they ring the bells to play melodies. English ringing is unique in that the bells are rung in mathematical patterns called "changes", so the activity is called "change ringing" (you can find this in Wikipedia). The simplest way to ring church bells is from highest to lowest, which is the standard way they're rung for weddings and other celebrations. In change ringing, the bells begin with this order and then change their order systematically according to a mathematical formula. With six bells, there's a total of 720 possible permutations. To ring what's called a full peal, or extent, the ringers need to ring every permutation once each, correctly, in the right order, without messing up and without repeating. This can be done on six bells, but for eight or twelve bells there are far too many possibilities to ring them all, so the ringers select a certain set of combinations. Because the point of the activity (at least in theory) is to go through all the possible changes of bells, we get the phrase "ringing the changes", meaning to go through all possible combinations of something.

My dad did his bell ringing stint when he was a boy... long history in my family apparently.. I hope you have seen Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves ? The scene where Robin and the Sherriff are fighting in the church, and Robin grabs hold of the bell rope and shoots straight up on it out of the way of the Sherriff ?! I have tried bell ringing myself, really enjoyed it !! ...but yes if you are not careful the larger bells will lift your feet off the ground, and if you pull too hard will take you up into the rafters 😅 Very funny story for you, back in the 1700s an ancestor of mine was a bell ringer all his life , and according to historical documents, they were a bit naughty.. arriving late for church on Sunday, arriving late and drunk to practice and swearing.. so a contract was drawn up that everyone had to sign (including my 7 times great grandfather) that they would pay a penny for every time they were naughty 😂 I have a copy of the contract, the original is framed on the wall in the church, Wysall Church, South Nottinghamshire. I love the sounds from a church on Tuesday or Wednesday evening practice.. it's always a laugh when someone goes wrong and their bell is out of sync..hehe

Bell ringing is the ringing of BIG CHURCH bells (imagine the Liberty Bell as one of the SMALLEST) Change ringing means ringing each bell in order. Each bell has a rope with a softer hand grip (or SALLY). Church bells have a substantial piece of wood above them so that the bell can hang upside down without going all the way over. The rope then pulls the bell over until it rests on the other side of the wood. This rings the bell once. CHANGE ringing (hence the phrase 'ringing the chimneys' is about changing the ORDER that a set of bells is rung. (The number of bells varies with the size of the bell tower - the parish church where I grew up had eight bells). The way that the order of ringing bells changes can be described in various patterns and competitions will be judged on how accurately the ringers keep to the pattern as well as how evenly the rings come. It's hard physical work and requires careful concentration to follow the pattern and can take HOURS!

First of all I love that you actualy check things out rather than wait for answers in comments. It was nicknamed the Magic Roundabout after a popular cildrens programme that was originally French but dubbed into Eglish and was on Tv between 4-5 in the afternoon.

Bell ringing is quite simply where church bells are rung. It's the pulling of ropes attached the the large bells in a church/cathedral there are contents of doing this. I think it would be quite fun if I had the chance to do it.

Bell ringing compilation is held in churches with 6 or more bells. They have to play various tunes.

i took my driving test in Swindon & had to go through that "Magic " roundabout, BTW it works as in the 8 years i lived there using it twice a day i only saw 2 accidents & they were just shunts

Hi Tyler I think that the bell ringing is church bell ringing there are contests in most parts of the uk if you are looking for somewhere strange to live you could always try Bodmin Gaol it has recently been turned into a 5 * hotel

Campanology. A peal of bells. Many towers in England have 10 even 12 bells ranging in size (and weight). They are tuned and represent frequencies between treble and tenor. Bells are rung in sequences reference to Oxford and Cambridge patterns. The ringers must know the sequence and use the rope and sally to park the bell against its stay, between its notes in the pattern. These are very popular at weddings. For practise the clapper is lashed to each bell so it doesn’t ring out.

Bell ringing = campanology. Wikipedia states "Campanology is the scientific and musical study of bells. It encompasses the technology of bells - how they are founded, tuned and rung - as well as the history, methods, and traditions of bellringing as an art. It is common to collect together a set of tuned bells and treat the whole as one musical instrument."

There is a pencil museum in Keswick in the Lake District. I went round it, it’s actually good and interesting. There is also Wookey Hole, a cave where a witch lived, the Blue John Mines and loads of places

The pantomime is not mime. It is vaguely derived, I think, from the Commedia del Arte (Pantaloon, Harlequin, Columbine, etc). It is an around-Christmas production for the family. It is normally based on a fairy tale, eg Cinderella, the matinee performances being very child-orientated with audience participation - children screaming 'It's behind you' to an apparently deaf and unobservant character who is desperately trying to catch an elusive cat or something. Evening performances have less of this and more risque jokes. There is traditional 'travestie' of dress for a couple of the characters.

guess i'm sheltered, i assumed bell ringing is what i did as a kid where i'd go up church bell towers (with permission) to ring the bells on the hour etc. My grandad would take me to do that in local villages.

The bells make tunes. It’s is done in old country churches, and is quite hard and skilled work. It s traditionally used to announce services….not a contest.

The bell ringing.. You get several bells in the belfry (the bell tower of a church). Each bell is a different pitch and each is rang by pulling a long 'Sally' (rope/cord). So, at the bottom of the church there are several 'Sallies', there is a group of people (bell ringers), one person rings each bell and they have to time it right to play a tune. It's trickier than you might think.

The Morpeth Bagpipe Museum is not to be missed. You will understand the whole why of pipes... and there is a good coffee stop nearby. Totally recommended. Never forgotten.

In the days before people had clocks, the church bells were rung to tell people it was time for church. The bells are in the belfry in thei bell tower high in the church and each bell has a long rope attached. The bell ringers down below pull on the rooes to sound the bells. Churches have several bells of different tones so can play different 'changes' or tunes. Bells are also rung in celebration as at weddings, huge public events like a coronation. The church bell was used as an alarm in times of danger. Bell ringing is quite a skill and physically exhausting. As with anything else, if it's a thing, there's likely to be a way of competing in it. Church bells ringing is one of the most glorious sounds on earth.

Hat’s off to you Tyler for doing what many other Americans don’t bother doing and that is studying and researching our history, places, language, food, culture etc.

If you think we have some strange museum’s… there is actually a barbed wire museum on route 66 in the states 😁

Love your videos, they always make me laugh. There is no fossil sport, sorry to take that notion away from you, it said spots not sports. Bell ringing refers to church bells that are rung by pulling ropes that swing large bells in a church bell tower.

Some of them things i never heard off I'm from UK . My great uncle was a Morris Dancer.

As a Swindonion, the magic roundabout is something before you learn to drive you fear, but as soon as you do it you realise it makes so much sense and you can sail across so smoothly

Pantomime doesn't have mimes in it 😂

Mother Shipton's Cave, which has a petrifying spring, and you can go to see things hung up being petrified, and can buy a petrified teddy in the gift shop. It's been a tourist attraction since the 17th century. The National Telephone kiosk collection at Avoncrift. It's a collection of phone boxes. The Margate Shell Grotto - it was discovered in the 19th century, and nobody knows what it was for. Tar Bar'l - new year in Allendale, you can go and watch the locals carry barrels of burning tar on their heads. Oh, and Cumberland and Westmoreland Wrestling. It has outfits.

Added to my earlier comment, many, if not most, churches in the UK have a range of bells which a group of people ring to call the faithful, or to recognise a celebration such as a wedding ceremony.

There’s a very similar game on shrove Tuesday/Ash Wednesday in Ashbourne using a ball made of cork.

The "reading" ...... 🤣 Like he wasn't confused enough.....😂

Tamworth in Staffordshire has 6 islands around a central island. The traffic moves very quickly, and we don't have accidents

I just realised that things like the pencil and lawnmower museum are sort of our equivalent of the places in the USA where you can visit the biggest x, like biggest ball of twine and things.

The other form of bell ringing not mentioned here which was/ is competative is hand bells there is an old 2 ronnies comedy sketch featuring this. there is a you tube video of a driving instructor doing the Swindon Roundabout. Blue John mines were famous for mining Flourite "Blue John" mineral which is pretty rare. There are lots of interesting places throughout the uk, and lots of weird practices and competitions,

I've seen Zip World on TV , there's a long zip wire ,and large trampoline in a cave ,a friend has been on the zip wire ,she enjoyed it .

There is a magic roundabout in Bletchley, and yes, I went to the blue John mine when I was at school.

Bellringing aka campanology. It's said Kes-ick, it's in the Lake District. Panto is a theatre show at Christmas for children of all ages, Aladdin and Men dressed as women, that kind of thing, pantomime is the full word but it has nothing to do with miming. Magic roundabout was a kids TV programme in the 1970s, it's quite psychedelic stop frame animation, check out Dylan. It would be a good for an episode to watch some UK kids TV programmes from the 70s and 80s. There are some really odd ones like Tiswas and some are very inappropriate now.

Leave our pencil museum alone. The enjoyment of walking around looking at pencils is I’m sure second to none. Who are we to knock ‘em. Pencils will forever lead us on.😂 Church bell ringing Tyler. Kids used to ring the bells in church and swing up and down on the ropes because the bells are well massive, to teeny tiny. All with different tones. This rings a bell I think.

I'm glad the Cumbria Pencil Museum made an appearance!!! Watch the film "Sightseers"

There are many more, too! The small Scottish Island named Colonsay has an annual golf tournament on its' only course - some of which shares the island's airstrip. Only, you're required to take a mouthful of neat whisky after each hole you complete - and so it's not so much about using the least number of shots, as just last person standing - literally. It's also possible to take part in a number of charity events using structures that are not normally accessible to the public, such as abseiling down the side of The Shard - London's highest skyscraper, or the Forth Bridge in Scotland; or you could join one of the many New Year's Day sea-swims, that are dotted around our coastlines. There's also things like the 3 Peaks Challenge whereby you have to climb the three highest mountains in England, Wales and Scotland - within one 24-hour period. Or how about the Isle of Mull Car Rally, which takes place along public roads (that are narrow and which have many hairpin bends), mainly at night each October. Or how about spending a few nights as part of a religious community? Highland Games such as Tossing the Caber - which involves picking a 20+ foot long log off the ground by its' end and then throwing it over itself, isn't very common elsewhere. Such games take place in numerous Scottish communities throughout the summer months. You could go and dance at a traditional village ceilidh, or maybe watch a shinty match, in certain parts of the Scottish Highlands, again. Attend a concert of a male voice choir in Wales, or perhaps at a Gaelic-speaking Free Church on the Isle of Lewis, are two of the most unforgettable music experiences... Getting your photographs taken while dressed in full highland costume at the Scottish Tartan Centre in Edinburgh is fun, too!

Crocky Trail, Cheshire, a farmer created his own fun park with a load of old tyres and what look like extremely dangerous slides etc. It is busy nowadays and has food stalls and pick nic areas .Kids absolutely love it, thanks to a bunch of off there nuts farmers.

You should check out Gurning.

Bubble cars are no longer made. They are very small 3 wheel cars and only one or two people can fit in side them including the driver. When I was a kid I was driven in one once. The door (There is only one door) is at the front of the car. When you open the door the steering wheel moves with the door and you have to step over the foot pedals to get in. I think some later models have the door at the side.

Im shocked that cheese rolling, bell ringing, and bog snorkelling was included but they left out bottle kicking (not what it sounds like) or the big sheep!!

He gets so much stuff wrong, it's infuriating! And he never reads the comments either

Dealing with roundabouts is actually childishly easy. There is one simple rule. 'Give way to cars coming from your right.' That's it. It's all you have to remember. Other than that, the ordinary rules of the road apply. Stay in your lane and signal when you want to change lanes. I suspect that the British sense of courtesy and waiting in line plays a strong part in our road discipline. If people routinely tried to barge through when they didn't have right of way, it wouldn't work.

go down the deep dark rabbit hole of morris dancing....

How can Tyler view all the pictures of churches coming up in his bell ringing searches and not make any connection? Mind you he read the first reference to graphite as granite. I can't remember which of the Americans reacted to British inventions, one of which being the lawnmower. Perhaps it wasn't Tyler.

Bude is pronounced Byewd. A small town with a beautiful beach in Cornwall, and somewhere we went regularly when I was a kid. Apparently Swindon's Magic Roundabout was built in 1972, which is 51 years ago, not the 60 years ago stated in the video. Strangely though, we went to Swindon a lot in the late 70s/early 80s to visit family, and I don't remember it being there then. I only became aware of it in the late 80s. 🤷‍♂️ It's not the only one of its kind either, there's one in Hemel Hempstead, and also one at Heathrow Airport, outside Hatton Cross Station. No doubt there are others, too.

In 2005 me and my family were on british TV program "Holidays at Home" at the Kent Diggerland! There are several other roundabouts like the one in Swindon in the UK.... 2 near me in High Wycombe and Hemel Heampstead

You should definitely react to the atherstone ball game!

Jurassic coast would be good for fossil finding.

The pencil museum's also got WW2 pencils that had maps of behind enemy lines so they could escape

If you ever end up visiting the UK i highly recommend visiting in November and attending the Tar Barrels in Ottery ST Mary

I would say - the three or four course breakfast, especially in scotland, where you'll have porridge with honey and cream, kippers, then the traditional eggs and bacon affair, maybe with bubble and squeak, toast and marmalade to finish off with. After that, you're ready to go back to bed to sleep it off.!! I have seen people eating kippers in bed-and-breakfast hotels, but myself, I'm not so keen on including fish in my breakfast menu. In London, I go to bakeries where the bread comes straight out of the oven, and then you can have them put breakfast or whatever you want, on top.

"The Magic Roundabout" used to be a children's puppet show in the UK.

Look up Campanology, the art of bell ringing. Bell ringing (pulling on ropes to strike large bells) normally to call people to church. competitions with hand bells are completely different. Fossil hunting, read SPOTS NOT SPORTS . Aspersions, not aspensions !! . Pantomimes have music, singing and speech and audience participation. 😮

Yes!!!! The magic roundabout in Swindon works very well. Have traversed it many a time with no mishaps.

Hi Tyler you have to look into British Pantomime! It is a crazy experience we inflict on our children at Christmas and probably accounts for our unique sense of humour.

Change ringers will be out in force in the great cathedrals and churches throughout the UK and Commonwealth on Coronation day. Most people will have heard change ringing, but may not have seen it being done. It’s worth checking out some KZfaq videos on ‘change ringing’ to gain an appreciation of how it is done.

Please look into Pantomimes in Britain. Comedy, slapstick, cross dressing, humour. Add Christmas and you're nearly there. A great British family tradition.

Do American churches not have bells? That's a shame, good bell-ringers are a joy to listen to. Sadly none of our local churches do it any more. I'd go for: walking down a street in Edinburgh at lunchtime and getting the bejesus scared out of you because you forgot a massive cannon was about to be fired; hill running; first footing; enjoying watching sheep shearing at the local agricultural show; watching people surf in the extreme North of Scotland; Highland dancing. curling, shinty, Up Helly Aa (never seen it but I''d love to),, that brief period in time when the people of three neighbouring counties rang any sort of bell they could find on Christmas eve at a pre-arranged time to create a bit of Christmas magic during lockdowns...68

Bog snorkelling is snorting in a bog- a bog is wetland that accumulate peat due to the incomplete decomposition of plant matter.

I think the people that ring church bells are traditionally called Collenuers or Collineurs . This is where the phrases "Ringing the changes" comes from.

The bird man rally at Bognor Regis and the Arundel bath tub race were always fun to watch as a child

Magic roundabout is a play on words reference to a children's show called The Magic Roundabout.

Bell ringing is called campanology. It is the ringing of church bells. Fossil finding spots NOT sports. Spots means locations E.g. the Jurassic coast.

Haha your confusion over the Bude tunnel. I'd never heard of it but realised it was a joke right from the start. Got to love the British sense of humour.

i live in grimsby and also there is a pub called the smallest pub in the world

With the bell ringing, don't think of little bells, think of bells the size of the liberty bell

It's pronounced B you d Keswick is pronounced Kez ick It is Aspersions they left out the r. Blue John is a very rare glass like rock that is made into vases and jewellery, it only comes from the Blue John mine in Derbyshire.

The Blue John Cavern is a great place to visit.

You are ringing church bells in a sequence that changes as the bells are rung.

Roundabouts are everywhere that you go in the U.K. You just have to give way to the right. It takes nerves of steel on some of the larger, busier roundabouts!

I used to live in swindon and let me tell you, this combined with the crazy amount of traffic cameras around make it a nightmare for people learning to drive.

Also Magic roundabout was a children tv program with puppets.

The bell thing was properly funny

I'm British and never heard of this roundabout...even I would die of fright to drive on it!

Alot of Brits are familiar with the cheese rolling too, unless you live in that area, or know about the video

Surely you know what a bell is and then to ring it you pull a rope if it is big and shake it in your hand if it is a hand bell.