On 21/11/2020 12:39, Max Demian wrote:

People who devise names for residential streets lack imagination. They
think of a name and append Road, Street, Avenue, Mews, Crescent, Close
&c. to it, regardless of the nature of the road.

Here in Chippenham (The Wiltshire one and not t'other) (England)
there are a large number of Meads and Closes which are named from
the historical fields and enclosures in which they are built.