Orkney phone numbers start 01856
Orkney is in Orkney Islands, and its landline numbers begin 01856.
An 01856 number does not prove the caller is in Orkney
83 phone companies hold 01856 ranges, a number keeps its code when it moves provider, and caller ID can be faked outright. The code tells you which exchange the range was allocated to - nothing about who dialled.
- Area code
- 01856
- Administrative area
- Orkney Islands
- Nation
- Scotland
- Population
- 22,270
- This town
- The place 01856 is named after
- Phone companies holding ranges
- 83
Numbers reported on 01856
Nobody has reported an 01856 number to this site yet. That does not mean an 01856 number is safe - it means no one has told us about one.
Other places on 01856
01856 covers more than Orkney. A call showing this code could have been allocated to a range at any of these exchanges.
Codes near Orkney
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Buy us a coffeeArea code and range data from Ofcom's published allocations, downloaded 1 October 2026. Town locations, populations and administrative areas from Wikidata (CC0), joined 1 October 2026 - towns within 40 km of the exchange. Reports are from visitors to this site and are unchecked. Browse every town A-Z.