Ebenezer Place, Wick

Ebenezer Place, Wick

Ebenezer Place, in Wick, Caithness, Scotland, is credited [cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Street measures up to new record | work = | publisher = BBC News | date = 1 November 2006 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6101968.stm | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2008-08-09] as being the world's shortest street in the Guinness Book of Records at convert|2.06|m|abbr=on. There is a single address on the street, 1 Ebenezer Place, which was constructed in 1883. 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. [cite web
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