01932
dialing code
01932 is the national dialling code for Weybridge in the United Kingdom. Before PhONEday, the area code was 0932. The phoneword mnemonic for 0932 corresponds with WE 2, where "WE" is taken from the letters W and E in Weybridge.
In common with all other British area codes, the initial '0' is a trunk prefix that is not required when dialling from abroad.
Coverage
The dialling code contains seven telephone exchanges, which serve a mostly urban and suburban area in the north west of Surrey on the outskirts of Greater London, centred on the town of Weybridge.
A telephone exchange previously existed in Longcross but its numbers were absorbed into the Chertsey exchange in the early 1970s.
Settlements served by the dialling code include: Addlestone, Byfleet, Chertsey, Cobham, Longcross, New Haw, Ottershaw, Shepperton, Stoke d'Abernon, Sunbury-on-Thames, Upper Halliford, Walton-on-Thames, Weybridge, Wisley.
History
The Esher charge group contained two STD codes – 0932 with its Group switching centre (GSC) in Weybridge and 0372 with its GSC in Esher.
Weybridge exchanges were not originally arranged in a linked numbering scheme, resulting in the necessity of local dialling codes to dial between exchanges. During the 1980s, the exchanges gradually became part of a linked numbering scheme with the STD code 0932 and the original 4 and 5 figure numbers became 6 figure.
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