Ebenezer Place, in

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, Caithness, Scotland, is credited by the '' Guinness Book of Records'' as being the world's shortest street at . The street has only one address: the entrance to No. 1 Bistro, which is part of Mackays Hotel. The hotel has other frontages onto Union Street and River Street, with its main entrance on Union Street. Ebenezer Place originated in 1883, when 1 Ebenezer Place was constructed; the owner of the building was instructed to display a name on the shortest side of the hotel. It was officially declared a street in 1887. Ebenezer Place was only recognised by the ''Guinness Book of Records'' in 2006, after the owner of the Mackays Hotel building made an entrance into a new bistro. It replaced the previous record of , held by Elgin Street, Bacup, England.

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