When it comes to the broadband superhighway, one village in Kent doesn't even make the slip road.

In fact sleepy Farningham has been singled out as having the slowest internet speeds in the UK!

In a study by broadband comparison site Top10.com, the picture postcard village notches up speeds of a paltry 1.30Mb.

That means it would take a staggering 12 hours to download just one movie from the web in Farningham!

That compares with some UK broadband providers who offer speeds of up to 24Mb - and Liverpool as an area, which has an average 7.72Mbps.

Farningham's broadband speeds are so slow, according to the survey, even a remote Scottish border town called Duns and a small village in the Rhondda valleys of Wales called Pentre have faster internet speeds.

The results were based on nearly 100,000 speed test taken across the UK between August and October.

Alex Buttle, Director of Top10.com, said: "We made sure there were at least 50 tests on each postcode area so although many of the low broadband speeds did come out in the north, especially in places like the borders around Scotland, in actual fact Farningham did come out to be the worst. It was a surprise to us as much as anyone else."

"We don't have access to information about BT's exchange level information, so no I wouldn't know precisely why that was.

"There are anomalies with broadband speed such as this one that, for whatever reason, the infrastructure just meant that the broadband speeds just aren't there around Farningham".

Abdul J'bair, manager of the Lion Hotel in Farningham, said he was shocked at the village's ranking: "It surprises me as I have no problems here at all, at the hotel. I have never had any problems with it at all."