Ebenezer Place, in Wick

Wick, Highland

Wick is an estuary town and a royal burgh in the north of the Highland council area of Scotland. Historically, it is one of two burghs within the county of Caithness, of which Wick was the county town. The town straddles the River Wick and extends along both sides of Wick Bay...

, Caithness

Caithness

Caithness is a registration county, lieutenancy area and historic local government area of Scotland. The name was used also for the earldom of Caithness and the Caithness constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . Boundaries are not identical in all contexts, but the Caithness area is...

, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

, is credited by the Guinness Book of Records as being the world's shortest street at 2.06 m (6.8 ft).

In 2006 it surpassed the previous record (5.2 m (17.1 ft)) set by Elgin Street, Bacup, Lancashire

Elgin Street, Lancashire

Elgin Street is one of the shortest streets in the world at 17ft . It is located in Bacup, Lancashire. It held the British record until November 2006, when it was discovered that Ebenezer Place, Wick in Caithness, Scotland, constructed in 1883 and named in 1887, was shorter at only 6ft 9 ins or...

. The street has only one address: the front door of No. 1 Bistro, which is part of Mackays Hotel.

The street originated in 1883, when 1 Ebenezer Place was constructed; the owner of the building, a hotel at the time, was instructed to paint a name on the shortest side of the hotel. It was officially declared a street in 1887.

But for its status as a street in its own right, the location of Ebenezer Place would be a junction of Union Street with River Street.