July Country Meeting, Saturday 11th July 2026
72 days to go
The July country meeting will be held in Birmingham
As is usual the event will cover three days of peal attempts, a tour preceding the meeting and a meal on the Saturday evening. Please sign up now for what promises to be a great weekend. Towers will be either walkable or via public transport.
Peals and Event Programme
There are many peal towers available for peals, which are available on Thursday 9 July, Friday 10 July and in the morning of Saturday 11 July.
General Ringing
There will be a tour of towers in the area on Saturday, details tbc. Immediately before the meeting there will be open ringing at Edgbaston, which has plenty of free parking. It’s then a 20min walk or 5mins on X21/22/20 to the venue from Edgbaston.
Meeting
The meeting and evening event will be at the University of Birmingham’s Guild of Student’s Debating Hall, which is on the first floor of the Guild of Students, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
- X21/22/20 buses run outside the venue to and from the city centre (New Street station) every 10 minutes.
- Trains from University station (5min walk from venue) run to New Street station at a similar frequency.
- Edgbaston Park Hotel is the nearest hotel (5min walk) to the venue itself , potentially on the expensive corporate conference end of hotels.
- There will be free on site parking for those with disabled badges.
Map
Sign up
Logged in members can sign up for peal attempt and meal. (If you can't see the link to sign up here, and you have a log-in to this site, you can log in here, then you can sign up; alternatively by ticking the paper list on Wednesday or please email Penny Sharpe the Assistant Secretary.)- Peal attempt: we need to know by Wednesday 1st July, in 62 days
- Meal: we need to know by Saturday 4th July, in 65 days