0114 (UK dial code)
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Sheffield
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...
, excluding the Fox House area (dialing code 01433), the Eckington
Eckington, Derbyshire
Eckington is a town in North East Derbyshire, 7 miles north of Chesterfield and 8.5 miles south of Sheffield on the border with South Yorkshire.Eckington has a population of 11,152....
area of North East Derbyshire
North East Derbyshire
North East Derbyshire is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. It borders the districts of Chesterfield, Bolsover, Amber Valley and Derbyshire Dales in Derbyshire, and Sheffield and Rotherham in South Yorkshire....
(dialing code 01246) and the Aston, Aughton
Aughton, South Yorkshire
Aughton is a village near Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. Located in the civil parish of Aston cum Aughton, 4 miles south of Rotherham....
, and Ulley
Ulley
Ulley is a village and civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. It is located about south of the town of Rotherham and east of Sheffield City Centre.-History:...
areas of Rotherham (dialing code 01709).
Sheffield local numbers were originally six digits long, but they became seven digits long when a new system was implemented on PhONEday in 1995.
| Region | Post-PhONEday numbering | Pre-PhONEday equivalent | Phase distributed under |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheffield Sheffield Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely... |
(0114) 2xx xxxx | (0742) xxxxxx | Initial Phase |
| (0114) 3xx xxxx | n/a | First additional phase of numbers, released in 2004. | |
| (0114) 4xx xxxx | n/a | Further phase of numbers, released in 2010. |
Sheffield
(0114) - 2xx - xxxx numbers have now been exhausted, so new numbers issued now begin with 3 or 4, rather than the old ones being reused.There have reportedly been many problems involving people incorrectly dialing
01142 3xx - xxxx for 0114 3xx - xxxx numbers and therefore being connected to the wrong person or business.History
Before 1965, Sheffield had 5-digit telephone numbers, with the first digit indicating the exchange area of the telephone line. Sheffield's 6-digit numbers were implemented by prefixing the 2 in the original 5-digit numbers and while most numbers were prefixed with a duplicate of the first digit (seen below), though some did not follow this pattern (as seen by the last example).| Exchange Area | Area Affected | Original Number System | New Number System |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Hillsborough | 3xxxx | 33x-xxx |
| 4 | Brightside/Attercliffe | 4xxxx | 44x-xxx |
| 5 | Heeley/Abbeydale | 5xxxx | 55x-xxx |
| 6 | Crookes/Broomhill | 6xxxx | 66x-xxx |
| 7 | City Centre | 2xxxx | 72x-xxx |
Switching to 6-digit numbers produced 90,000 available numbers for each exchange group, providing another 450,000 available numbers after combining both phases, producing a potential 500,000 numbers in Sheffield.
Between regions
Until the 1980s, Stocksbridge, Oughtibridge, and some other areas had 4-digit numbers. Within Stocksbridge and Oughtibridge people dialed only 4-digit numbers, while from Sheffield people dialed prefix 88 for Stocksbridge and prefix 86 for Oughtibridge. From Oughtibridge, people dialed 88xxxx for Stocksbridge and 9xxxxxx for Sheffield. This led to some confusion, leading people to often dial wrong numbers. During the 1980s these local areas were unified into 6-digit Sheffield numbers so that from anywhere in the Sheffield code area, 88xxxx dialed a Stocksbridge number, even from within Stocksbridge. Once the 8-prefix was merged into the full local number this released 8xxxxx numbers.Transition to 7-digit system
Transitioning to 7-digit numbers in 1995 involved prefixing each 6-digit number with a 2. Immediately after the 1995 change, the corresponding 22x-xxxx numbers became available for allocation, followed by the 20x-xxxx and 21x-xxxx ranges, since the corresponding 0742 0xxxxx and 1xxxxx wouldn't have been issued as local numbers weren't permitted to start with a 1 or a 0. The 0114 code allows for a potential maximum of 7,990,000 local numbers to be issued, assuming the use of the entire valid range from (0114) 200-0000 to (0114) 998-9999 country-wide.See also
- UK telephone numbering planUK telephone numbering planThe UK telephone numbering plan, also known as the National Telephone Numbering Plan, is the system used for assigning telephone numbers in the United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies...
- PhONEday
- Big Number ChangeBig Number ChangeThe Big Number Change was an update of telephone dialling codes in the UK in response to the rapid late-1990s growth of telecommunications and impending exhaustion of numbers. The change greatly expanded the pool of available numbers while helping to retain 'local dialling'...
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