Get a 01242 number
for your Cheltenham business.
A 01242 number tells customers in Cheltenham you are local to them, without an office, a landline or an engineer visit. Auricall sets one up in minutes and puts a full phone system behind it — browser and mobile calling, IVR menus, voicemail transcribed to searchable text, and an AI layer that remembers every conversation.
Dialling code
01242
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Number format
01242 XXXXXX
6 local digits after the code.
Also covers
Bishops Cleeve and Charlton Kings
A 01242 number is the easy part.
Anyone can sell you a number. What decides whether it is useful is what happens when it rings, and what is left behind once the call ends.
- Buy a 01242 number in minutes, or port the one you have for free
- Ring the whole team at once, not a single handset
- IVR menus and time-of-day routing you configure yourself
- Voicemail transcribed into a shared inbox
- Calls recorded and transcribed under your retention settings
- Call from the browser, the mobile app, or a SIP desk phone
- Every call attached to a contact and a timeline
- AI summaries and the commitments made on each call
Incoming · 01242 XXXXXX
Ringing 3Bishops Cleeve
Inside the 01242 area
Charlton Kings
Inside the 01242 area
One 01242 number, answered by whoever is free — in Cheltenham or anywhere else.
Customers in Cheltenham
recognise 01242.
Geographic codes stopped meaning a physical line years ago, but they never stopped meaning something to the person dialling. A local code reads as a business that is nearby and reachable — which is why plenty of national companies hold one for every region they sell into.
Local, without an office
Hold a 01242 number whether or not you have premises in Gloucestershire. The number is not tied to an address.
Keep it when you move
Because there is no line underneath it, moving offices — or having none — does not cost you the number.
More than one answerer
A 01242 number can ring an entire team at once and fall through to a shared voicemail inbox.
About 01242 numbers
Yes. Porting a Cheltenham number to Auricall is free and your number keeps working throughout — nothing is cut over until the port completes. Most UK geographic numbers move within ten working days.
No. UK geographic codes are not tied to a physical line any more, so a business anywhere can hold a 01242 number. Plenty of remote and distributed teams use one to give customers in Gloucestershire a local number to call.
As well as Cheltenham itself, 01242 covers Bishops Cleeve and Charlton Kings. Any number in that area shares the same code.
01242 XXXXXX — the 01242 code followed by 6 local digits. Callers inside the area can usually dial just the local part.
Yes. One number can ring a whole team at once, follow an IVR menu, or route by time of day. Everyone answers from the browser or the Auricall Voice app, and every call lands on the same shared contact record.
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