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Old 10th Dec 2021, 10:25 pm   #22
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Default Re: Why did Leeds get the 0532 dialling code ?

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Originally Posted by paulsherwin View Post
Lots of places got codes that didn't correspond to the exchange name for whatever reason. Oxford got 865 for example.
The story I heard was that there was no logical order , and exchange codes ( after the major cities I assume) was a mater of which exchange got STD first with further numbers added as suffixes to rout a call through from the parent exchange to the dependant one. It was ( as I heard it) a matter of looking in a book and allocating the next free code. Around the same time there was a set of operator codes which bore no relation to the STD codes. This was ( from my understanding) what the register translator dialled when it received your area code.
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