The next time you find yourself near Windsor Castle in need of a short walk, check out Queen Charlotte Street in Windsor, England. At just under 52 feet long, the tiny passageway is officially the shortest street in England. The quirky cobblestone pathway is centuries old and measures a mere 51 feet and 10 inches.
But if you do happen to find yourself in Queen Charlotte Street, you're actually walking on what is reputedly the shortest street in Britain. This unusual record is marked with a blue plaque, confirming its historical status, which can be found on the corner of High Street.
Although the nomenclature is uncertain, what we do know is that Parliament Street dates from the 14th century and is the undisputed narrowest street in Britain. It measures just 25 inches at its narrowest point and 45 inches at its widest, and has a length of about 50 metres.
50 metres long (160 foot) and just 64 centimetres (25 inches) wide at its narrowest point, you could easily miss this little lane while wandering down Exeter's bustling high street.
Kirk Street, WC1 (50 feet/15 m), is London's shortest “street” with an address (the Dickens, a former pub), but it is a paved pedestrian-only thoroughfare.
Strada Sforii (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈstrada ˈsforij], meaning "Rope Street", German: Fadengasse) is the narrowest street in the city of Brașov, Romania. It is believed to be one of the narrowest streets in Europe (L'Androuno, in France, Spreuerhofstraße, in Germany, and Parliament Street, in England, are narrower).
For over eight hundred years, people have been coming to Marlborough to shop. King John granted the town its charter in 1204 and the twice-weekly market survives to this day.
King Street is acknowledged to be the longest street in Britain since it is 0.2 miles longer than Duke Street, Glasgow - generally accepted as being the longest street. Its southern end is in the city centre and is also near the prestigious shopping street, Union Street.
The roadwork-riddled M20 has been crowned England's worst motorway according to a survey. The route between London and Dover proved to be the least popular major road in the country among 8,000 drivers in a recent poll.
An alley or alleyway is a narrow lane, path, or passageway, often reserved for pedestrians, which usually runs between, behind, or within buildings in the older parts of towns and cities.
Standard residential streets can be as narrow as 5.5m, as can be rural roads. Single carriageway with cycle lane: 8.8m (principal roads), 10.3m (highways) or 9-10.3m (classified roads). The cycle lanes are 1.5m wide each way.
The county of Devon is responsible for a greater mileage of roads than any other highway authority in the UK, and thanks to its rural nature, many of them are either very narrow, very steep, have very high hedges and no visibility around corners, or lack places to pass oncoming traffic.
Bishopsgate London has a rich history that dates back to the Roman period and is the oldest street in London. The name of the street is derived from the Bishop's Gate, which was one of the original entrances to the city, and it was the site of the Bishop of London's palace in the medieval period.
Somewhere to the east of Glasgow lies the A8(M) - but look carefully, because it's not easy to find. The A8(M) is the UK's shortest motorway, running for just over 280 metres (308 yards). It forms a link between two roundabouts at Baillieston Interchange, better known as the junction between the M8 and M73.
At 231 miles (370km), the M6 is the UK's longest motorway. It runs from Catthorpe (junction 19 on the M1) to the Scottish Border. The M62 is the highest motorway in the UK. It reaches 1,220ft (372m) near the Pennine Way footbridge.
Meanwhile, Sheffield, Wirral and Leeds have the best road surfaces in Britain. The Department for Transport (DfT) has published its statistics on the conditions of England's roads for the first since 2019, as the government opted to delay the data collection in 2020 to alleviate the burden on local authorities.
During the rebuilding of the town after the Great Fire, the high street was widened and is often claimed to be the widest in England though the actual widest is in Stockton-on-Tees. This wide street allows ample space for the local market.
The busiest of all turned out to be Oxford Street in London, with 13,560 pedestrians per hour. More surprisingly, the runner-up was Kaufinger Strasse in Munich (12,800 pedestrians/hour), outstripping Calle des Preciados in Madrid (10,290), the Zeil in Frankfurt (10,200) and the Champs-Elysées avenue in Paris (10,277).
1. Vatican City (0.44 km2) Technically, the tiny walled enclave of Vatican City is not a country but a 'sovereign city-state' ruled by the Pope. Whatever the case, with a mere 900 residents, it's the smallest independent state in the world, by both area and population.
Ebenezer Place in Wick holds the world record for the shortest street. Our No 1 Bistro is the only address on Ebenezer Place, but at 6ft 9 inches in length (2.06 m), there is no room for another.
Ebenezer Place, in Wick, Caithness, Scotland, is credited by the Guinness Book of Records as being the world's shortest street at 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in). The street has only one address: the entrance to No. 1 Bistro, which is part of Mackays Hotel.
