A TIGHT FIT

Stone Street is one of the tightest streets in the country, measuring 28 inches.  It just misses out of the title of narrowest street, which is held by Parliament Street in Exeter, by just 3 inches. Although it is too narrow for road vehicles and people can only fit through it in single file, it is still counts as a public highway because of the existence of the Stone Street plaque.

It is part of the medieval street layout of Prescot which took its present shape after the town was granted a market charter in 1333.  It would have originally been little more than pathway created as a boundary marker between open areas of land in the 1550s. As these areas of land were built upon and subdivided over time this pathway developed into a cut-through to the medieval windmill. Maps show that by 1848 it then led to a courtyard full of now-demolished houses called Wood Square.

On one side of the street (on the right if you look out towards the shops) if you look up you will see the timbered walls of 23 Eccleston Street. This along with no.21 is the oldest building in Prescot. Its oak frame is made of trees that were cut down in the late sixteenth century, it gives an idea of how the buildings would have looked before 1600

The high D rating is due to the high muggle count in the area

HIGH MUGGLE AREA...... PLEEEEEAASSEE BE STEALTHY