Wick, Caithness【4K】| Town Centre Walk 2021

Join me for a walk around the centre of Wick, the second-most northerly town on the island of Great Britain! With over a thousand years of riveting history concentrated on just a few small roads, this former Viking stronghold in the far north of Scotland developed to be the world's biggest herring port, and is now even home to the world's shortest street too!

On our walk around Wick, we pass a number of interesting landmarks, including Wick River, the Mackays Hotel, Ebenezer Place (the world's shortest street), Wick War Memorial, Bridge Street, Wick Town Hall, The Royal National Mòd Flower Clock, Wick Bridge Street Church, Wick High Street, Wick Market Place, The Alexander Bain Pub (former Post Office), The Camps Bar, Wick Harbour Bridge, Wick Bay, Pulteneytown, Telford House, Telford Street, Wick Harbour, The Old Fog Cannon, Wick Memorial Garden, Wick Heritage Museum, Bank Row and Wick River once again.

Thank you so much to the following sites which really helped me out in my research of Wick:

0:00 Wick River and Bridge Street
0:21 Wick River
0:32 River Street
1:07 Mackays Hotel
1:14 Ebenezer Place (the shortest street in the world!)
1:41 River Street
1:48 Wick War Memorial
2:11 Bridge Street
2:49 Wick River
2:57 Bridge Street
3:26 Wick Town Hall
3:46 Royal National Mòd Flower Clock
3:55 Wick Town Hall
4:30 Former Bridge Street Church
4:48 Wick Town Hall
5:10 Bridge Street
5:27 Clydesdale Bank
5:46 Bridge Street
6:06 High Street
6:41 Market Place and The Alexander Bain
7:20 High Street
8:03 View towards Wick Harbour Bridge
8:18 High Street
8:50 The Camps Bar
9:00 High Street
9:08 Wick Harbour Bridge
9:56 View towards Wick Bay
10:14 Wick Harbour Bridge
10:55 Williamson Street
11:48 Telford House
12:17 Telford Street
13:07 Harbour Quay
13:35 Wick Harbour
14:40 The Old Fog Cannon
15:27 Harbour Place
16:00 Bank Row
16:23 Wick Memorial Garden
17:12 Bank Row
17:29 Wick Heritage Museum
18:05 Bank Row
19:25 Miller Street
20:12 Telford Street
20:49 Miller Street
21:21 Burn Street
21:53 River Street
22:50 Wick River and Bridge Street
23:11 Thank you for watching!

Stats for nerds:

Distance walked: 1.1 miles/1.8km
Step count: 2200 steps (approx.)
Time taken: 22 mins 51 secs
Average speed: 2.9mph/4.7kmh

Please do not use any footage from this video without my permission.

[LetsWalkUK]

Good evening! Thank you so much for over 7, 400 subscribers - I'm really glad you're all enjoying the walks around the UK - there are certainly a lot more to come :)

One of the highlights of a visit to Wick is the world's shortest street, Ebenezer Place, which took its title in 2006 from another British street - Elgin Street in the Lancashire town of Bacup! Elgin Street was 5.02m/17ft long, twice as long as Ebenezer Place in Wick! So, Bacup is on the list of places to visit next!

[VStrom]

Was born and brought up there, left when I was 19. It was a very bubbly and thriving town when I was there. Proud to be a Weeker.

[richardthompson]

Thank you for this, and greetings from Orlando, Florida.
I had the pleasure of travelling to Wick in September of 1999.
I took my pipes and played in front of the HMS Exmouth graves in the local cemetery. You see, it was my
grandfather 's ship. It was sunk with all hands just off the coast with all hands. A week later several bodies washed ashore at Wick. His name was John Richard Watts, my mothers dad. I did this for him, the crew, and our family. He was from Worcester. My GI father was a commercial fisherman. That fit with the comradery of all seamen.
I hope to return back there again some day.

[geoffanderson]

Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I really quite enjoyed it. At first I thought I can't be arsed to watch the whole thing but I did. It was an inciteful taste of this very northern town.

[ThorpRJ]

My mum came from Wick, met my dad there and married in Bridge St Church in 1943. Spent many a happy hour there.

[lindahenderson]

I lived in Wick for a few years about 10 years ago and barely nothing has changed just a few shops names I have walked all the places you went to and more I loved living there. I lived near to the Old Pulteney Town Distillery the smell of whiskey filled the air most days Thanks for the memories :)

[Nortic]

Ah, our dear Wick! We really enjoyed some of the lesser known facts about the town, where my Granny and Grandad lived many years ago. Thankyou for such an interesting tour, very well researched!

[robanks]

Thanks for the great video, half of my family are from Wick, i was there about 5 years ago. I never knew about the prohibition period, my grandfather kept that quiet, no wonder he and many of his friends joined the merchant navy!

[northernskys]

Another great walk about. Just love the way every town, no matter where or how big, has so much history about it. And just love the way you share that history with us. Living out here in Oz, I had forgotten about the gloriously late evening sunsets of England and Scotland. With every one of your videos I watch, my Wanderlust grows :). Thank you, and keep up the great work!

[gordonchild]

Another great walk with interesting history as well...i remember being in John O Groats 17 years ago it was still broad daylight at 11.45 pm...we had driven from the lake disrict i fell asleep as soon as i got to the bb...great memories..
Thanks once again.

[legalmac]

"Teet in, hear yarns" means "Peek inside (the window or door) and listen to the gossip or stories (of the people living or working inside. Where you were would have been a busy, bustling area of the harbour in the past.

[Jim-iwyd]

Excellent job, well done, found that very interesting.

[puzzlesandquizzes]

Another fascinating video - being from England a lot of us don't know a great deal about parts of Scotland. Thanks for opening them up to us.

[lauraalleguen]

Just love your videos... Very informative and Visually quite enchanting especially the old historic town's that are great to watch if going on holiday OR even House 🏠 hunting.... Great job 👍✅....

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[mikeswift]

Brilliant walk again.
 I drove through Wick on my 2, 000 mile learning to drive tour of Scotland in 1969, we actually did the North Coast 500 before it became famous.
Re the Nordic Caithness flag, the flag of the West Riding of Yorkshire is also of the Scandinavian type with a cross of St. George offset towards the hoist and a Yorkshire rose in a blazing sun at its centre which is known as  rose en soleil.

[christinecormack]

Thank you for the walk. Brings back memories. Good to see the sign on The Hsrbour Mission wall is still there". Christ died for our sins." A wee church with a great Gospel message.

[DEEN]

Enjoy the walking around historical town of Wick. Great job.💂

[ublart]

Great video. I am going there shortly. It will be interesting to see where my relative lived when he was stationed there during the war. I have a lovely letter showing the hospitality he and his wife received from the landlady. I missed your commentary.

[jeanettekennedy]

loved your video thank you for showing