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Letter STD codes on your page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialling_codes_in_the_United_Kingdom
Greetings,

I would like to ask a few questions about your fascinating compilation.

Question 1. 01999 — unused. The code 0999 was used for dialling by PO operators only to mobile relief exchanges in the Glasgow area in the 1970s. This code is now unused, and this may simply be because previously it was 0999 and the emergency telephone number is 999. It is likely to have been avoided so as to avoid confusion.

This is new to me. I am aware that there was a relief Mobile Non-Director exchange within the Glasgow director area called Park Mains. It acted as relief exchange for Erskine, from 14 January 1972 until 29 November 1978 (source Post Office Gazettes). It had the STD code 041-800 (London STD dialling code book, November 1977). Might this be the exchange that you had in mind?

Question 2. 01795 — Sittingbourne, Sheppey (SY5)

Do you have evidence for this? The London STD dialling code book for 1964 shows the code as 0SW5. SW stands for Swale, the name of the administrative district where Sittingbourne is located and the name of the channel separating the mainland from the Island of Sheppey. The majority of telephones in the 01795 area are on the mainland, so it would have been perverse to name the telephone area after a sparsely populated island.

Question 3. 01959 — Westerham, Otford, West Kent (WK9) – – Was originally 0083 (OT) until changed to 0959 in 1968.

I hate to disappoint but the Canterbury STD dialling code book of 1964 shows Otford as 0WK 92. I have never come across any official record that mentions the code 0OT3.

Of course, it may be that the entries I have queried were included not by yourself but by other mischievous people who altered your work. It would be interesting to know!

Best regards, Andrew Emmerson (andrew_emmerson@btinternet.com) 2A00:23C5:9D82:3100:F1BB:C33A:FE91:2326 (talk) 16:40, 29 December 2020 (UTC)