Welsh village bids to have road named as steepest street in the WORLD due to 36% climb
Locals in Harlech, north Wales, are aiming high by asking Guinness World Records to officially recognise Ffordd Pen Llech as the world's steepest
RESIDENTS in a Welsh village say that a local road should be officially known as the steepest in the world.
At its steepest, the street called Ffordd Pen Llech has a calf-busting 36% gradient.
But the current official Guinness World Record holder is Baldwin Street in Dunedin, New Zealand, with 35%.
The people of Harlech want to set the record straight and are calling in the judges.
Speaking to the , Sarah Badhan said: "I'm pretty hopeful for sure. I would hope that they [Guiness World Records] would come and at least assess it, it would be nice if they'd come and check it out.
"I lived away for a number of years and I used to proudly tell people about living in the town with what I believed to be the steepest hill in Britain.
"It's something we're all really proud of."
In their submission to Guinness World Records, residents say that Ffordd Pen Llech has a one in 2.73 gradient at its steepest.
By comparison, New Zealand's current title-holder has a one in 2.86 gradient.
Sarah added: "It's quite a challenge getting up, you're quite exhausted by the time you get to the top."
Most people in the village live at the bottom of the hill but the local chemist and post office are at the top.
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The road in Harlech runs through the Snowdonia National Park and is already recognised as the steepest signed public tarmacked road in the UK.
It's one of the two roads surrounding 13th century Harlech Castle, which is a Unesco World Heritage Site.
The name Pen Llech is derived from Welsh words meaning "'end" and "slab", and can be roughly translated as meaning "end of the rock" or "head-stone".
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