Tiny UK village is home to shortest road in the entire WORLD – it's barely length of a person & takes 3 steps to cross
A TINY village in the UK is home to the world's shortest road, which takes just three steps to cross.
The road, which is shorter than some people, is officially credited by Guinness World Records as being the shortest street in the world.
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Ebenezer Place, in Wick, Scotland, measures just six feet and nine inches, and has just one building on it, a hotel located on the corner of the tarmac.
The world's tallest man, Sultan Kösen, is eight feet and two inches tall, meaning that if he lay down, he wouldn't be able to fit on the street.
Explaining the history of the street, Mackays Hotel revealed: "When Alexander Sinclair returned from America in 1883, after making his fortune, he built Mackays Hotel on the corner of Union Street and River Street.
"The council instructed him to put a name on the short end of the building, as they deemed it a separate street.
"Ebenezer Place then appeared in the town's records from 1887.'
"Robert Louis Stevenson, who spent time in Wick while his father built a new breakwater in the bay, referred to our location in his 1883 book, Treasure Island."
Guinness World Records said: 'The record for the shortest street is held by Ebenezer Place in Wick, Caithness, Scotland, which measured 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) long, when checked on 28 October 2006.'
The tiny street has now become a tourist attraction, with people flocking from all over to marvel at it.
Posting to Tripadvisor, one visitor said: "Well, don't bli n k or you'll miss it.
"And don't get run down either whilst looking for it, as it's on a busy junction."
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A second person said: "It's worth going to see if you're visiting Wick.
"There is a sign, buts it's quite faded and could be done with being replaced."
A third person said: "We went looking for this place and walked straight past it into Union Street.
"At 2.09m long it's no wonder we missed it.
"Not often we get to see a world record."
A fourth added: "Didn't even realise we had witnessed a world record until reading these reviews.
"I just remember getting frustrated that we couldn't find the place we were looking for.
"But there it was, straight in front of us all the time."
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