I'll confess to a fondness for completely made-up street name etymologies. Years ago in Cambridge...

"Ah, Short Street. Nathaniel Short."
"Really?"
"Yes, it's named after Nathaniel Short - you know, the Roundhead. He was a general in the New Model Army. Quite a story, really - he was originally a farm labourer..."

All this while walking past a built-up urban thoroughfare with a total length of about 50 yards. Keeping it up is the challenge.