01229 area code: Barrow-in-Furness, Millom

The 01229 area code covers the towns of Barrow-in-Furness and Millom, as well as the surrounding areas.

Locations using the 01229 area code

  • Bardsea
  • Barrow in Furness
  • Bootle
  • Broughton in Furness
  • Dalton in Furness
  • Greenodd
  • Kirkby in Furness
  • Lowick Bridge
  • Millom
  • Ravenglass
  • Satterthwaite
  • Ulverston
  • Walney Island

When is it necessary to use the 01229 Barrow-in-Furness, Millom dialling code?

If you are calling from a mobile phone or landline outside of the 01229 Barrow-in-Furness, Millom area code, you will need to use the dialling code. However, if you are calling a local number within the same area code, you do not need to use the 01229 dialling code. When calling from outside of the UK, you will need to add the international dialling code for your country, followed by the UK country code (44) and the area code without the initial zero (01229).

Locations (codes) near the 01229 code

The Beginning of the 01229 Area Code

Prior to the PhONEday event in April 1995, the area code was 0229 and the historic mnemonic code was BA9, with the first two characters taken from the letters B and A in BArrow-in-furness. On an old rotary dial telephone, this code would have been entered by dialling the numbers 2, 2, and 9.


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