I think Snail's example arises from this American wish for street names to make sense. I am not sure if the UK never thought it was possible or simply gave up on it. The nearest you get to it is that in some area many of the streets are named after poets, or aircraft, or something like that but more than half a dozen in succession is unusual. And even there, there is no obvious order poets should appear.

There may be some new towns or similar where the namng does make sense, but it would not work because no one would expect it. When I was buying a house some years back a lot of agents leaflets (yes, it was that long ago!) referred to the "ever popular ABC estate". I had lived in my house for around a year before I realised I was on the ABC estate, so named - only by estate agents, as far as i can tell -because four of them off Eversley Avenue had names starting with a, b, c and d in order. Of course, having the spine name starting with E meant it all broke down after that and the rest of the names were as haphazard as usual.