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Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Telephone country codes, but also sometimes referred to as "country dial-in codes", or historically "international subscriber dialing" (ISD) codes in the U.K., are telephone number dialing prefixes for reaching subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.
This is a list of telephone dialling codes in the United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies, which adopts an open telephone numbering plan for its public switched telephone network. The national telephone numbering plan is maintained by Ofcom , an independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries.
Two telephone helplines within the regular code space have only eight digits: 0800 11 11 for ChildLine and 0845 4647 for NHS Direct in Wales. The number 159 ('Call 159') has been introduced to give a standard number for calling banks, in an effort to reduce scams where people are tricked into calling someone pretending to be their bank. [56]
This is a list of international dialing prefixes used in various countries for direct dialing of international telephone calls.These prefixes are typically required only when dialling from a landline, while in GSM-compliant mobile phone (cell phone) systems, the symbol + before the country code may be used irrespective of where the telephone is used at that moment; the network operator ...
Country: Scotland: Sovereign state: ... and most of the area's telephone dialling codes (within the Edinburgh 0131 area code) are 228, 229, 447, 477 or the newer 452 ...
Maybury Telephone Exchange was also positioned opposite the entrance to Almond Green and served the area with 031-339 numbers, then later with 0131-317 and 339. Safeway opened what was then, the largest of their stores in Scotland, in 1981 at Bughtlin Market.
Code Purpose 16: Former International Access Code (replaced by EU standard 00) 03: Formerly used for calls to Great Britain. The format was 03 + STD code + local number: 08: Formerly used for Northern Ireland landlines (Now 048). e.g. Belfast 01232 xxx xxx was reached by dialling 08 01232 xxx xxx: 084: Formerly used for Belfast landlines 10
In the 1860s he had a villa ("Kingsmuir") in Peebles an hour south of Edinburgh. Here Robert Louis Stevenson was a frequent visitor to his house i his capacity as best friend of his son, Robert "Bob" John Romanes (1852-1909) (later Major Romanes of the KOSB). [12] He died at his country estate of Craigerne in Peeblesshire on 6 February 1879.