 East Dundry telephone subscribers were originally served by a network of poles and overhead open-wire cables all the way some 6 kilometres from the Chew Magna manual telephone exchange.Due to the Second World War and the following austerity, two houses often shared one of the few available lines with party lines (for example The Dingle had the number Chew Magna 81 from 1931 and the neighbouring North Hill Cottage later shared the line with Chew Magna 1081).In the late 1950s Bristol’s automatic “Strowger” Bedminster exchange 66xxxx numbers served the hamlet, changing later to 63xxxx and yet later 963xxxx.