Elgin Street, located in
Bacup
Bacup ( , ) is a town in the Rossendale Borough in Lancashire, England, in the South Pennines close to Lancashire's boundaries with West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester. The town is in the Rossendale Valley and the upper Irwell Valley, east of ...
,
Lancashire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lancash ...
, is one of the shortest streets in the world at . It held the British record until November 2006, when it was discovered that
Ebenezer Place, Wick in
Caithness,
Scotland
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, which was constructed in 1883 and named in 1887, was shorter at only in length.
The street is accessed from a
walkway
In American English, walkway is a composite or umbrella term for all engineered surfaces or structures which support the use of trails.
'' The New Oxford American Dictionary'' also defines a walkway as "a passage or path for walking along, esp. a ...
between Bank Street and Lord Street, but
vehicular access has been cut off by the later construction of this walkway and steps. The street can be viewed from the railings above.
References
{{portal bar, Roads, Lancashire
Borough of Rossendale
Streets in England