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: Church bells ringing. St. Mary the Virgin's Church, Willesborough, Kent.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Church bells, eight bells ringing. St. Nicholas' Church, Sevenoaks, Kent.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Village church bells, six bells ringing to rest. Christ Church, Kilndown, Kent.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Village church bells, single bell tolling with sound of mechanism. St. Margaret's Church, Horsmonden, Kent.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Farnborough Air Show 1968, general atmosphere without P.A. announcements.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Tonbridge railway station, station buffet atmosphere at teatime.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Brands Hatch, Formula Two cars moving from pits to track.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Dover port, exterior, departure of cross-channel ferry. Siren at 1m00s, moves off at 3m00s.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Customs shed at Dover Ferry Port, general atmosphere with some indistinct speech and sounds of cars being driven.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Actuality of Dover raid during the Battle of Britain. Messerschmitts' attack on balloon barrage driven off by A/A fire.
BBC DESCRIPTION: General market atmosphere, Maidstone.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Canterbury Cathedral bells, exterior, ringing starts, rounds, Grandsire Cinques, rounds, ringing stops. Recorded from top of 'Bell Harry' tower, 1981.