{"id":25,"date":"2012-12-28T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T00:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cbucks.odg.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2024-04-04T14:10:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T14:10:39","slug":"home-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cbucks.odg.org.uk\/wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2153 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cbucks.odg.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/cbb-288x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"283\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #26282a;\">The Central Bucks Branch of the <a href=\"http:\/\/odg.org.uk\">Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers<\/a> covers 42 towers of 3 to 10 bells in the area of the diocese that stretches from Long Crendon in the south-west to Great Horwood in the north and from Marsh Gibbon in the west to Wing in the East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #26282a;\">We border with the <a title=\"Link to the ODG Bicester Branch website\" href=\"http:\/\/bicester.odg.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bicester Branch<\/a>, <a title=\"Link to the ODG Chiltern Branch website\" href=\"http:\/\/chiltern.odg.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chiltern Branch<\/a>, <a title=\"Link to the ODG North Bucks Branch website\" href=\"http:\/\/northbucks.odg.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North Bucks Branch<\/a>, <a title=\"Link to the ODG Oxford City Branch website\" href=\"http:\/\/city.odg.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oxford City Branch<\/a>, <a title=\"Link to the South Oxfordshire Branch website\" href=\"http:\/\/southoxon.odg.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Oxon Branch<\/a>\u00a0and <a title=\"Link to the Bedfordshire Association of Change Ringers website\" href=\"http:\/\/bacr.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Bedfordshire Association of Change Ringers<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #26282a;\">The Branch was founded on 18<sup>th<\/sup> February 1928 at the church of St John the Baptist, Granborough, at a time when there were some keen clergy in the area trying to build up order and standards with the local area Bell Ringers. \u00a0The branch originally included some towers from the Chiltern Branch before it was formed in 1962 when it was decided that some of the remote towers would be best looked after by a new branch as Central Bucks was already quite large.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #26282a;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #26282a;\">The Chiltern Branch and the Central Bucks Branch hold a joint striking competition every year, called the Orchard Cup, in memory of the late Fred Orchard of Nether Winchendon.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #26282a;\">The Central Bucks Branch sets out to offer support and training for various areas such as bell handling, method ringing and bell maintenance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #26282a;\">If you would like help with any of these, please contact a Branch officer from the Officers&#8217; page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #26282a;\"><strong>Branch Map of Towers&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2006 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cbucks.odg.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Branch-Map-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"790\" height=\"661\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bucks Branch of the Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers covers 42 towers of 3 to 10 bells in the area of the diocese that stretches from Long Crendon in the south-west to Great Horwood in the north and from Marsh Gibbon in the west to Wing in the East. 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