If I get this wrong, 50,000 people will hear it.
At Worcester Cathedral, I finally take on a challenge that hundreds of people have suggested: bellringing. | 📰 AD: Avoid clickbait and ragebait with 40% off Ground News’ Vantage plan! Use this link: https://ground.news/tom 🗺️ England series map: https://tomscott.com/england/
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@TomScottGo
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Over the years that I've made videos, hundreds of people have suggested bellringing. Finally: this one's for you. | 📰 AD: And thanks to Ground News: you can get 40% off their Vantage plan at https://ground.news/tom
@cornbeef
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
I would be doing my Mum a disservice if I didn't take this opportunity to say, if you're in Bury, Lancashire (I refuse to say GM) and want to give it a go, give me a message on here. She's the Captain of the Tower and would love to teach more people. It's a fun thing to do and as the man said in the video, it's a fantastic way of keeping the mind fresh.
@monochromedevdle5697
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
🙂
@robertschnobert9090
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
I really enjoyed your ferret video 😊
@TheTanadu
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Tom already created a bell
Tom already rang a bell
what else he can do with bells?
@adamlake9507
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
To me, Tom Scott’s channel is, and always has been, what YouTube and the internet in general was intended to be
@ALAN.BOURNE
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
I only know of Xev Bellringer, lovely lass
@SouthWestProductionsOfficial
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Liverpool cathedral is almost twice as heavy as these bells
@IsabelJones69
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
My grandad did bell ringing in Lincolnshire.
@Mordaxian
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
I broke a stay in the chipping campden church bells once…. i was never invited to ring again….
@ray.shoesmith
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
What's wrong with Gestapo officers disguised as monks? They're disguised as worse these days..
@PlutoTheSynth
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
20:53 he just did the sign of the cross there
@Absbor
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
I don't mind clickbaiting titles, as long as i'm not lied to. if the clickbait is true, it's really nice.
@ceqell
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
bell ringing 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑
@masterofx32
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
So can you cause a resonance catastrophe in the tower when the bells are rang wrong?
@irober02
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Check out The Nine Taylors by Dorothy L. Sayers
@Natethegreat-z8n
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Darron is my teacher💀💀💀
@lucitribal
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Is this the same sequence as on Division Bell?
@jacksonstarky8288
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
No mention of the Monty Python "bells sketch" around 6:00? For shame. 😁 Fun to see the Taylor foundry mentioned in this episode.
@Justahuman-vv1
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
I was a bell ringer in my youth and loved it. Wish I could go back to doing it. If you can, I would say give it a go.
@jaysonlee8625
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
I used to ring the bells of my church, and one of the fun things to do was to fly up with the rope, we could shoot up several meters. Sadly now all the bells here in singapore are electric.
@crayoniii
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
I’ve loved the sound of bells ringing since I was about 15 years old. One of my favorite albums, Sister by Sonic Youth, ends with a track that ends with change ringing interspersed with open guitar strings ringing out from the back of the neck being knocked with knuckles. It’s a perfect moment to end a perfect album.
Little over a decade later I find myself in Lucerne, Switzerland, on top of an old stone wall with two great friends. The blue sky studded with clouds over the most gorgeous landscape I’d ever seen. And then the bells started ringing. I’d never felt more heavenly than in that moment. Ecstasy washed over me and I felt greater then than any time before or since.
Anyway, thanks for another great video and reminding me of a couple of great things.
@Chaun1998
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Bit of a shame that over here in the US, we've electrified the whole process for most churches. Admittedly there are so damn many of the things that they probably couldn't find volunteers to ring the bells.
@aidanlegs
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Im helping my local church with upgrading their simulator.
@jgcodes2020
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
fun fact: the method used by change ringers to go through every permutation is known to computer scientists as the Johnson-Trotter algorithm.
@nightelfmohawk9821
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
This video is helping calm me down, I just had bad moment and I'm having a hard time figuring out why it happened… I hate this feeling
@rubenmejia942
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
10:42 This gentleman has the quintessential British stiff upper lip.
@jeremiahcurtis3067
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Very glad to see these videos in my feed again. I watch very sporadically, but always find the content fascinating and educational when I stop by. Thanks for what you do, Tom. Enjoy the rest of the trip!
@vibin_psilocybin
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
this newfound meaning of "dumb" in my life has changed so many things…. Pinball Wizard by The Who gets a little bit nicer when you understand its original definition
@dianam2096
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
seems there are a total of zero places you can have a nice look at this cathedral apart from the air with a drone, and its colossal
@shawnholbrook7278
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Well, that was a bit of excitement. 😊 I'm happy the man with Parkinsons can ring the bells and it's therapy and enjoyment with the community.
@ausgruenden1590
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
The mystery of the Cumberland gap deepens.
@glossaria2
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Thank you so much, Tom! I'm American, so this (as far as I know) doesn't really exist near me, and I've wanted to see how bellringing worked every since my favorite author (Robin McKinley) talked about it.
@alexcannon-microdot
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
I feel like Linguistic Tom Scott had fun with this one
@13231wmw
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
That's… way different from how the Iberian cultures ring their bells.
@beheroot
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
worcester and queue are 2 english words that made me think that english language should pay for its letters that it doesnt use. Or maybe donate them somewhere…
As for bells -here the machines do the ringing in most churches but, on the other hand, most villate/town churches have only 1 bell, and it is not big.
@FunctionallyLiteratePerson
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
you know when something is english when i, an american, have no idea what the meaning is
@thespeakersystem
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Now visit a carillon! It’s bells controlled by a keyboard (or two)
This is interesting btw just had to say it
@dxjxc91
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Damn youtube influencers messing up the bells for a whole town to hear. I'm kidding, but you definitely would have benefited from a group practice on the silent bells to get used to the timing.
@ArtynixMcMoonshine
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Spoiler: Scott does not eat a tub of marmite while juggling baby rattles with his feet.
@tTartanScotsman
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Just fit some motors. This isn't 1300.
@jimday666
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Can't motors do this sync?
@prestokirbo1492
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
You’re telling me Tom came back 3 months ago? Where have I been?
@JontyOnions
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Does anyone else get a very particular urge to break something when hearing church bells or is that just me?
@Vordix1-YT
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Change an „e“ to an „a“ – chill guys, it’s called dark humour
@MaVaLa-um2lu
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
In Germany we have motor driven systems to do the bell ringing automatically. Because wtf this looks complicated.😂
@bonuscheesemilk
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
As long as I can remember, I've always hated the sound of church bells, thinking it was a cacophonous noise. After watching this video I think maybe there's just no good bell ringers near me, I could hear the scale! 😹
@1985metalmaniac
July 16, 2026 at 9:14 pm
I dont subscribe to tom Scott but algorithm keeps me informed