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01489
01489 is located in the United Kingdom
01489
01489
United Kingdom area code for Hamble Valley
National calling01489
International calling+44 1489
ConservationNo
Active since16 April 1995
Previous code(s)0489
Earlier code(s)04892, 04893, 04895, 04896, 04897
Number format01489 xxxxxx
Coverage
Area servedBishop's Waltham
Botley
Corhampton
Curdridge
Droxford
Durley
Hedge End
Locks Heath
Lower Upham
Meonstoke
Segensworth
Soberton
Swanwick
Upham
Waltham Chase
Warsash
Whiteley.
List of United Kingdom codes


01489 is the national dialling code for Hamble Valley in the United Kingdom. Before PhONEday the area code was 0489, with the mnemonic HV 9 where HV are taken from the letters H and V in Hamble Valley – an unofficially recognised geographic area surrounding the River Hamble in Hampshire.[1] The dialling code is rarely ever referred to as Hamble Valley (and its name appears to be generally unfamiliar to the residents of the area that it serves), but is instead referred to as Botley, or less frequently (except by residents of the immediate area) as Bishop's Waltham or Locks Heath. In common with all other British area codes the initial '0' is a trunk prefix that is not required when dialling from abroad.

Coverage[edit]

The dialling code contains five telephone exchanges which collectively serve a largely suburban and rural area in the south of Hampshire, straddling the local authorities of Eastleigh, Fareham, and Winchester, but it does not include their town centres.

Code Exchange Local Authority
STBISHW Bishop's Waltham Winchester
STBOTLY Botley Eastleigh
STDROXF Droxford Winchester
STDURLY Durley Winchester
STLOCKH Locks Heath Fareham

Settlements served by the dialling code include: Bishop's Waltham, Botley, Corhampton, Curdridge, Droxford, Durley, Hedge End, Locks Heath, Lower Upham, Meonstoke, Segensworth, Soberton, Swanwick, Upham, Waltham Chase, Warsash, Whiteley.

History[edit]

Hamble Valley was included in the Fareham charge group along with the 0329 STD code which served Fareham town centre, Stubbington, Titchfield, and Wickham. The Fareham charge group was unusual because it was a dependent charge group of two Group switching centres (GSC). Hamble Valley telephone exchanges with an 0489 STD code were parented onto the Southampton GSC, and Fareham telephone exchanges with an 0329 STD code were parented onto the Portsmouth GSC.

The routing digits for 0489 in distant STD exchanges were the same as those for Southampton (0703) followed by 92. The routing digits for 0329 in distant STD exchanges were the same as those for Portsmouth (0705) followed by 92.[2]

Hamble Valley telephone exchanges were not arranged in a linked numbering scheme, so 0489 was suffixed with a digit identifying the particular exchange.[3] The same suffix digit was also used in local dialling codes from Southampton.

Exchange name Original STD code
Botley 04892
Bishop's Waltham 04893
Locks Heath 04895
Durley 04896
Droxford 04897

Hamble valley telephone exchanges gradually became part of a linked numbering scheme during the 1980s with the STD code 0489, and the original 3, 4, and 5 figure numbers became 6 figure, when Strowger telephone exchanges were replaced with digital telephone exchanges.

Exchange name Old numbering New numbering
Botley 04892 2000 to 6999 0489 782000 to 786999
Botley 04892 81000 to 81999 0489 781000 to 781999
Botley 04892 87000 to 87999 0489 787000 to 787999
Botley 04892 88000 to 88999 0489 788000 to 788999
Bishop's Waltham 04893 2000 to 6999 0489 892000 to 896999
Locks Heath 04895 2000 to 6999 0489 572000 to 576999
Locks Heath 04895 77000 to 78999 0489 577000 to 578999
Locks Heath 04895 81000 to 84999 0489 581000 to 584999
Locks Heath 04895 89000 to 89999 0489 589000 to 589999
Durley 04896 200 to 599 0489 860200 to 860599
Droxford 04897 200 to 799 0489 877200 to 877799

Calls from the Fareham charge group were charged at local rate to telephone exchanges in the following STD codes:[4]

STD code Location
0329 Fareham
0421 Southampton ring code
0489 Hamble Valley
0701 Portsmouth ring code
0703 Southampton
0705 Portsmouth
0730 Petersfield
0962 Winchester
0983 Isle of Wight

Telephone exchanges in 0421 and 0701 were gradually transferred into 0703 and 0705 respectively, and added to their linked numbering schemes.

Former local dialling codes[edit]

From Southampton:

Exchange name Dialling code
Botley 922
Bishop's Waltham 923
Locks Heath 925
Durley 926
Droxford 927

924 was the local dialling code for Fareham (0329) from Southampton, which resulted in 04894 becoming unusable as an STD code.

From Winchester:[5]

Exchange name Dialling code
Botley 93922
Bishop's Waltham 928
Locks Heath 93925
Durley 93926
Droxford 93927

Calls to Hamble Valley exchanges were routed via Southampton except to Bishop's Waltham which had a direct connection to Winchester. The unpublished dialling code 93923 would also have worked for Bishop's Waltham with the call routed via Southampton. 93 was the local dialling code for Southampton from Winchester.

From Ryde, Isle of Wight:[6][7]

Exchange name Dialling code 1968 Dialling code 1979
Botley 93922 04892
Bishop's Waltham 93923 04893
Locks Heath 93925 04895
Durley 93926 04896
Droxford 93927 04897

Calls to Hamble Valley exchanges were routed via Southampton. 93 was the local dialling code for Southampton from Ryde. By 1979 the local dialling codes had been withdrawn and the full STD codes for the exchanges were required.

From Petersfield:[8]

Exchange name Dialling code
Botley 04892
Bishop's Waltham 04893
Locks Heath 04895
Durley 04896
Droxford 04897

Full STD codes were required in 1971 which implied that no direct connections existed between Petersfield and the Hamble Valley exchanges.

References[edit]

  1. "Hamble Valley - The Strawberry Coast".[permanent dead link]
  2. Haworth, Roger. "British Subscriber Trunk Dialling Codes".
  3. "STD Codes Reverse List 1968" (PDF).
  4. "Fareham charge group".
  5. "Deduced from an Alresford dialling code card" (PDF).
  6. "Deduced from a Brading dialling code card – 1968" (PDF).
  7. "Ryde dialling code card - 1979" (PDF).
  8. "Petersfield dialling code card - 1971" (PDF).


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