The ‘world’s prettiest street’ is in a beautiful UK city

It's known to beryllium the inspiration for (Image: Getty)

One of the UK's prettiest streets is truthful representation cleanable it's consistently ranked arsenic 1 of the astir beauteous successful the UK.

Adding to its database of achievements, it's present been revealed arsenic 1 of the astir Instagrammable streets successful the UK by Leeds Locksmiths. 

The Shambles successful York was hashtagged a immense 53,800 times connected the representation sharing platform, placing it successful the apical 10 astir snapped streets successful the UK.

This windy cobbled thoroughfare successful York is known arsenic the inspiration for Diagon Alley successful the Harry Potter films, and it's arguably 1 of the best-preserved medieval streets successful Europe. 

The Shambles was erstwhile afloat of butchers’ shops and houses, galore implicit with a slaughterhouse astatine the back, which explains the raised pavements to signifier a transmission wherever the residue could beryllium washed away.

It was erstwhile a engaged thoroughfare afloat of butchers' and houses (Image: Getty)

It's inactive imaginable to spot immoderate of the archetypal butcher’s meat-hooks attached to the shops, and successful immoderate sections it's imaginable to interaction some sides of the thoroughfare with arms outstretched. 

The sanction is thought to deduce from ‘Shammel’, an anglo-saxon connection for the shelves which antecedently flanked the unfastened shop-fronts.

House and Garden previously placed The Shambles among the apical 20 astir beauteous successful the world, and it was besides placed 3rd connected TripAdvisor's database of "must-see" celebrated British streets. 

Oxford Street came successful archetypal presumption (Image: Getty)

Six London streets dominated the Leeds Locksmiths rankings, with Oxford Street acold up of the remainder boasting 1,020,700 hashtags.

Regent Street followed with 469,200 hashtags, portion Carnaby Street's quirks drew successful 425,000 hashtags.

The UK's astir Instagrammable streets, according to Leeds Locksmiths

1. Oxford Street, London – 1,020,700
2. Regent Street, London – 469,200
3. Carnaby Street, London – 425,000
4. Portobello Road, London – 362,000
5. Bond Street, London – 290,000
6. Neal's Yard, London – 184,000
7. Victoria Street, Edinburgh – 127,600
8. Royal Crescent, Bath – 56,600
9. The Shambles, York – 53,800
10. Gold Hill, Dorset – 39,700
11. Steep Hill, Lincoln – 39,500
12. Ashton Lane, Glasgow – 33,000
13. Grey Street, Newcastle – 28,600
14. The Royal Mile, Edinburgh – 22,600
15. Circus Lane, Edinburgh – 20,000
16. Arlington Row, Bibury – 17,200
17. Mermaid Street, Rye – 16,600
18. Elm Hill, Norwich – 11,800