A street in Selly Oak has been named as the fastest in the UK for broadband internet.

An annual survey by price comparison service uSwitch has revealed Abdon Avenue has the fastest download speed across the UK.

The average speed was recorded as being 265.89 megabits per second.

The slowest spot, by contrast, is a village street in Bamfurlong in Gloucestershire, reports the BBC.

Abdon Avenue, Selly Oak, where residents enjoy the fastest broadband in the UK

There, homes on Greenmeadows Park averages just 0.14Mbps - 1,900 times slower than Abdon Avenue.

Those figures suggest it would take users five minutes 42 seconds to download all five episodes of Sir David Attenborough's Dynasties series in high definition in Abdon Avenue - but more than seven days in Greenmeadows Park.

The research was based on more than 279,000 real-world speed tests by members of the public.

USwitch said its results suggested the average speed in the UK was now 46.2Mbps, but added that about 13 per-cent of homes had speeds below 5Mbps.

Greenmeadows Park, where broadband is the slowest in the UK

Five of the country's fastest streets were found to be in the South West - in Devon, Dorset, Cornwall and Wiltshire.

Meanwhile, nine of the slowest streets were said to be in areas north of the River Mersey - including North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Scotland.

In some cases the firm said it was a "postcode lottery" as to whether users had abnormally fast or slow access, but in others it said there were ways to get a better service, such as moving to a "full-fibre" connection.

"Over a third of the slowest streets have access to superfast speeds, so people living there have no need to be crawling along on completely unusable internet services," said uSwitch spokeswoman Dani Warner.