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. Ebenezer Place is maintained by Highland Council as road authority. It first appeared in the Valuation Roll in 1886-1887.
Ebenezer Place was established in 1883 when Mackays Hotel was founded by the owner Alexander Sinclair who had returned to Scotland from America after making a considerable fortune. The hotel was constructed at the junction of Union Street and River Street in Wick. During that time Alexander Sinclair was asked by the town council to print a name on the shortest side of the hotel; he did, and the shortest street in the world was created. However, Ebenezer Place was not officially approved as a street for about four years as it took the same amount of time to get the required door for Ebenezer Place to be installed. At present, Ebenezer Place comprises of only a single address since there is no room for another and No 1. Bistro remains a part of the Mackays Hotel.
Ebenezer Place was mostly unnoticed as the shortest street in the world until Murray Lamont the manager of Mackays Hotel did some research and started a long process of getting the Guinness Book of Records to accredit the street. Craig Glenday, the editor-in-chief of the Guinness Book of Records traveled to Wick in Scotland, a trip that took about 50 hours battling through gale force winds and storm. An hour after Glenday arrived in Wick, he declared Ebenezer Place held the new record as the shortest street in the world. Robert Louis Stevenson, the son of Thomas Stevenson who spent time in Wick while his father was building the new breakwater in the Bay later, included a new reference to Ebenezer Place referring to it as Treasure Island.
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