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From the Dove’s guide homepage you can click through to more ‘about Dove’s guide’ and this says:

The following type of bell collections are currently in scope:

rings of three or more bells hung for full-circle English-style change ringing;
carillons in the British Isles;
bells weighing 40 cwt or more in the British Isles;
additional bells in the same location as a ring, carillon or 40 cwt bell given above; and
bells in buildings under the jurisdiction of the Church of England as part of its Church Heritage Record.
Future collection types will be added as part of future development.

So I think the only other bells and display bells are those in the same building as a set of bells for change ringing or carillon.

But the Dove’s team seem to be fairly responsive so you could contact them, directly for more clarification or to provide information about bells which could be included but are not yet.

https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/about

It's possible to search and find some "other" bells that are chimes (e.g.using Ellacombe-style frames either only or through force-majeur) but I'm unclear whether or not there has been any concerted effort to list the thousands of tower bells that are either currently or permanently unavailable for full circle ringing. It would require a gargantuan effort to attempt an entire catalogue of all tower bells, but with so many towers now at risk would it not be opportune for a national trawl to be made via county associations, guilds etc to identify and, perhaps, assess non-full-circle towers? Whilst that would be unlikely to acquire 100% of the extant bells it would surely go some way to inform future decision-making? Dropping such data into Dove would surely be feasible akong the existing formats? I'm struggling to keep the bells at my home tower heard as there is an embargo on full-circle ringing due to structural issues. However, that does means that I could support other bells currently languishing within a reasonable distance. "Adopt a bell" is a proven fundraising tactic when "we" need work on "our" bells - surely if information were to be available regarding the languishing bells ringers and supporters of tower bells could concert ther efforts to rescue, or at least conserve, such at-risk bells?

Thanks Lucy - I should have spotted that.