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Telephone numbers listed in 1920 in New York City having three-letter exchange prefixes. In the United States, the most-populous cities, such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, initially implemented dial service with telephone numbers consisting of three letters and four digits (3L-4N) according to a system developed by W. G. Blauvelt of AT&T in 1917. [1]
West Dereham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 13.51 km 2 (5.22 sq mi) and had a population of 450 at the 2011 Census. [ 1 ] For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk .
In 1947, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) devised the first nationwide telephone numbering plan and assigned the original North American area codes. The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes : 213 , 415 , and 916 , for the southern, central, and northern parts of the ...
Unlike fixed-line telephones, the long-distance telephone dialing format is always observed when using a mobile phone. Therefore, mobile phone numbers always have the format "+63 912 345 6789" for international callers and "0 912 345 6789" for domestic callers. [citation needed]
The district derives its name from the Breckland landscape region, a gorse-covered sandy heath of south Norfolk and north Suffolk. The term "Breckland" dates back to at least the 13th century. The neighbouring districts are King's Lynn and West Norfolk, North Norfolk, Broadland, South Norfolk, Mid Suffolk and West Suffolk.
Whinburgh and Westfield is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Its settlements are the small villages of Whinburgh and Westfield. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Breckland. The civil parish lies to the south of the town of Dereham; Whinburgh village is about 3 miles (5 km) from the centre of ...
The NR postcode area, also known as the Norwich postcode area, [2] is a group of 35 postcode districts in the east of England, within 16 post towns.These cover central, north and eastern Norfolk (including Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Attleborough, Wymondham, Dereham, Fakenham, Walsingham, Wells-next-the-Sea, Melton Constable, Holt, Sheringham, Cromer and North Walsham) and part of north-east ...
West Dereham Abbey was an abbey in Norfolk, England. [1] St Mary's Abbey, West Dereham, was founded in 1188 by Hubert Walter, Dean of York, at his birthplace. It was to be a daughter house of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, for canons regular of the Premonstratensian order.