This was news to me. I live on a nice but unimaginativly named road (The Avenue).

Chichester Tales aka Dunstan's Choice.
The naming of new streets is the responsibility of the parish council of the area in which the street occurs. However it is usual for developers to put forward their preferred names, which, if fitting, are agreed by the council. One of the most unusual tales concerning the source of street names must be that of the small estate of detached houses that were built in a Georgian style on the site of the former gravel workings off The Drive in Summersdale.
Apparently the authority had received no reply to their letters asking for suggestions of names so, when the day of the committee meeting to consider these matters arrived, a council officer rang the site to request the names.
Allegedly it was a hot day and Mr Dunstan, the site foreman who took the call, had more pressing matters to deal with, he looked out of his site office window where Messrs Harberton's lorry was delivering cast iron drainage goods from the well known firm of Stanton and Staveley Ltd. He quickly reeled off four names, Harberton Crescent, Staveley Gardens, Stanton Drive and Dunstan Close. The names were taken down and that evening adopted by the Committee, it was some time before their significance was realised but by that time Chichester had possibly the only streets in the United Kingdom named after a load of manhole covers. So now I know…
courtesy of RMcG. & [Ken Green]