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Old 3rd Dec 2021, 7:36 pm   #8
duncanlowe
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Default Re: Why did Leeds get the 0532 dialling code ?

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Originally Posted by paulsherwin View Post
'0' was just the STD prefix. The major city codes were essentially shortcodes because these exchanges received a lot of incoming calls, so London got 1, Birmingham 21, Edinburgh 31, Glasgow 41, Liverpool 51 and Manchester 61. Most places got 3 digit codes loosely based on the first 2 letters of the exchange name, so SToke-on-Trent got 782, STafford 785, LEeds 532 etc.
And that's interesting, because it shows that the fourth digit doesn't always follow the aplhabetic order of the the exchange name which most do, STo being 782 while STa is 785. I wonder what exchange name was used to derive 0889? Uttoxeter? Rugeley? Both share the code.

For many years, Orange listed the name of the exchange called on the bill. The exchange I often called was Dapple Heath, which is a tiny hamlet of just a few houses, though the actual exchange was Weston. I suspect this oddity was also to do with how the numbering system had originally been split.
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