In 2018, the BBC made freely available for non-commercial use around 16,000 of its sound effects recordings. A few hundred come from known locations around the UK, and most of those have been presented here in a sound map. All recordings © BBC.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Small town market square: footsteps, voices, street sweeping, traffic. Rec. Wisbech, Cambridge, 1979. Technical note: for use at low level.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Queens College clock striking twelve o'clock.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Trinity College clock striking twelve o'clock.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Jesus College clock striking twelve o'clock.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Caius College clock striking twelve o'clock.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Trinity and St John's College clock striking twelve o'clock. Trinity clock strikes a second time for St. John's College.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Christchurch College clock striking twelve o'clock.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Christ's College clock striking twelve o'clock.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Magdalen College Chapel bells, change ringing, Stedman Caters.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Church bells: half-muffled bells starting and pealing. St. Mary the Virgin's Church, Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Exterior, 5 bells rung at random in pre-Reformation style. St. Mary and St. Andrew's Church, Whittlesford, Cambs, 1982.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Exterior, 3 bells rung at random in pre-Reformation style, with birdsong. St. Andrew's Church, Toft, Cambs, 1982.