Tuesday 7th October 2025
A tree in the yard at the Telephone Exchange,
East Street, Warminster.
Photograph taken by Danny Howell
on Tuesday 7th October 2025.
A Tree At The Telephone Exchange
Category: Telephone
The End Of BT’s Phone Book Online
Tuesday 30th April 2024
It’s goodbye today (30th April 2024) to BT’s digital directory.
After April 30, the digital directory, The Phone Book Online, which lets users look up a person’s or company’s phone number, will be unavailable. They now have to phone 118 500 at £1.55 a minute, in addition to a 77p call fee, if they are unable to access the internet or cannot find the number they need online.
This is BT’s second axing of a service this year. In March deliveries of the printed phone directory to doorsteps ended. BT said 18 million copies of its phone book were printed annually but people are now using internet search engines to obtain the same information.
Warminster Telephone Exchange
Monday 6th March 2023
Details from the Telephone Exchange website:
Exchange Address
Located at :-
British Telecom,
Telephone Exchange,
East Street,
WARMINSTER.
BA12 9BY
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51°12’13.7″N 2°10’35.8″W
Local Authority = Wiltshire Council
UK area dialling code (STD code) for the Warminster exchange is 01985.
International dialling code for the Warminster exchange is +44 1985 or 0044 1985.
The Warminster exchange is in the Warminster group of exchanges.
5 telephone exchanges form this regional grouping.
Fibre to the Cabinet, Fibre to the Premises & Fibre on Demand services are available to customers connected to the Warminster exchange. Most customers can now upgrade from ADSL to fibre internet. Suppliers include BT Superfast Fibre, Plusnet Fibre Broadband, TalkTalk Fast Broadband & ee Unlimited Fibre Broadband.
https://telephone-exchange.co.uk/Warminster-SSWAR.html
British Telecom Payphones In The Town
From Warminster Town Council Annual Report 2016-2017:
British Telecom undertook a payphone consultation with a view to removing the majority of the payphones in the town due to lack of use. Members [of the Town Council] felt the information provided was inaccurate since the majority of the payphones were out of order and they requested that the payphone at Thornhill Road be retained as there was sufficient evidence of demand.
The Post Box At Boreham Field, Warminster
Wednesday 17th April 2013
The post box at Boreham Field, Warminster,
adjacent to Woodcock Road and next to the phone box.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on Wednesday 17th April 2013.
From £13.50 Per Month
A poster in the window ofÂ
Go Mobile phone shop,
at High Street, Warminster.
Photographed by Danny Howell
15th August 2012.
Warminster Telephone Exchange Enabled For ADSL Max
The Warminster telephone exchange in Wiltshire has been enabled for ADSL Max since March 2006.
Source: https://telephone-exchange.co.uk/Warminster-SSWAR.html
Warminster Telephone Exchange Enabled For ADSL
The Warminster telephone exchange in Wiltshire was enabled for ADSL in October 2003.
Source: https://telephone-exchange.co.uk/Warminster-SSWAR.html
STD Code Change For Warminster Telephone Exchange
Before PhONE Day on 16th April 1995, the STD Code For This Exchange [Warminster, Wiltshire] was 0985. [It changed to 01985].
Source: https://telephone-exchange.co.uk/Warminster-SSWAR.html
A Telephone Exchange For Imber
From The Wiltshire Times, Saturday 8th February 1936:
Imber. A Telephone Exchange.
There was a time when the village of Imber was remote from all. But for some time, Imber, no longer remote, has been on the ‘phone, and the latest news is that “progress” is being made with the introduction of a small manual exchange at Imber, pending the development and provision of ‘County Satellite’ equipment specially designed to serve small rural communities. This is the official news from the Post Office.