Cottesmore Telephone Exchange

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Cottesmore Telephone Exchange by David Hillas as part of the Geograph project.

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Cottesmore Telephone Exchange

Image: © David Hillas Taken: 25 Jun 2012

Situated on the B668 Main Street near Mill Lane, this TE has the code EMCOTTE and would date from the early 1970s replacing a smaller building from the GPO era in the same locality. It now provides telephone and broadband services to 1,413 residential and 49 non-residential premises in Cottesmore, plus Ashwell, Exton and Greetham nearby. A yellow grit salt bin can be seen at the side of this TE. It has (01572) 812xxx, 813xxx numbers, the (01572) referring to the Oakham group of nine TEs, and its postcode is LE15 7DJ.

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Image Location

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Latitude
52.713424
Longitude
-0.663698