[Pellseinydd]

Couldn't have been 0624 as that was the STD code for Douglas (Isle of Man) if the exchange had STD - but if they hadn't, the '0' would have been the code for the Operator.

The code for Poynton was always PO9 even in pre STD days from exchanges in the Manchester Director Area and 709 with the introduction of AFN. Then when 5 digit numbers appeared on Poynton exchange in the 1970's, the code 25 from the Director area was added for use with them - still a total of seven digits from the Director area.

Poynton was also 77 from Macclesfield Non-Director Group Switching Centre.

The STD code for Poynton was originally 0996 7 but when the exchange moved into the Macclesfield 'Linked Numbering Scheme' and the numbers became 6 digits long around July 1980, the STD code for Poynton became 0625 and thus there was no code from Macclesfield. The 'local' code from the Manchester Director Area became just the single digit '7' - still with a total of seven digits. Interestingly, the local code '7' was also used from the Director Area exchanges for Bolton, Farnworth, Heywood, Padgate, Rochdale and Warrington six digit numbers! All miles away - the routing was also determined by the initial digits of the individual phone numbers.