Mount Pleasant in the Suffolk town of Halesworth is the slowest broadband street in the UK, a fresh study by price comparison website uSwitch reveled.

According to uSwitch, Mount Pleasant has an average download speed of merely 0.128 megabits per second, 147 times slower than Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, which boasts of its broadband speed of 18.87 megabits per second. In other words, it consumes as many as 48 hours to download a movie.

Forestfield in the West Sussex town of Horsham, streets in Glasgow, Southampton and Chislehurst in Greater London were also found to be in the list of slowest 50 streets in the UK. It shows that slow broadband is not limited to rural areas.

Speaking on the topic, uSwitch's technology specialist Earnest Doku said, "Many of the streets that feature in the list aren't in the far-flung countryside, but rather in more urban areas, nearer to exchanges and where we would expect to see higher download speeds across the board."

Two of the worst counties were West Sussex and Hampshire, which accounted for around 25 per cent of the country's 20 slowest streets.

However, uSwitch used its own technology to conducts the broadband speeds tests, so many broadband providers may refuse to accept the results.