Shortest Street in the World
At 6 ft 9 inches (2.06 m) in length, Ebenezer Place in Wick, Scotland is the shortest street in the world.
In fact the street is as long as some people are tall. Such as Vanja Ivesa (tallest football player living, playing for Eskisehirspor in Turkey) or Zdeno Chara (tallest player in the National Hockey League) are tall.
The story of Ebenezer Place centres around the MacKay’s Hotel. In the early 1880s, Alexander Sinclair had returned to Scotland from America after making a considerable fortune.
He used much of this fortune to build the MacKay’s Hotel at the junction of Union and River Streets in Wick. Ebernezer Street was constructed in 1883, when the 1 Ebenezer Place building was built.
This building was a hotel at that time, and the owner was asked by the town council to print a name on the shortest side of Mackay’s Hotel. He did so, and the world’s shortest ’street’ was born, although not officially approved as a street for four years because it took that long to get the required Ebenezer Place door in place.
Today, Ebenezer Place contains only a single address because there is no room for another and No 1. Bistro remains part of MacKay’s Hotel. A descendant of Mr. Sinclair was still living in Wick in 2009.
