Ebenezer Place, Wick

The Ebenezer Place in Wick Scottish port applies to a length of two meters and six centimeters according to the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest street in the world. Part of Ebenezer Place only the narrowest side of the building of Mackays Hotel, at the entrance to the "No. 1 Bistro " is.

The hotel was built in 1883 by Alexander Sinclair, after he had returned after a successful business in the U.S. to Scotland. The local government ordered him to install a street sign on the short side of the building, since it was assumed, it leads past a road. The name " Ebenezer Place" but was only in 1887 registered as a road from the local municipality, after it had been built there an entrance door.

By the year 2006, when Ebenezer Place was recorded in the Guinness book appeared, was the bit about five meters long Elgin Street in Bacup English as the shortest street in the world. Entirely uncontroversial classification of Ebenezer Place as a street is not.

The Ebenezer Place is located at the point where the discharges coming from South Union Street in the running from southeast to northwest River Street. A few meters north-west flows the River Street into a roundabout where it meets the Cliff Road, Station Road and Bridge Street.