"That on the application of the owner, Mr W. B. Ritchie, two new streets on his property situate off York Road, be named Ayr Street and Fife Street". (Improvement Committee, 12th August 1891).
There is a group of street-names off York Road derived from Scottish geographical names, comprising Fife Street, Ayr Street, Bute Street and Glasgow Street.
Fife is the name of a county, also called Fifeshire, on the east coast of Scotland. It consists of a peninsula bounded to the south by the Firth of Forth, and by the Firth of Tay to the north. Its three major towns are Kirkcaldy, Dunfermline and Glenrothes. The historic city of St. Andrews is at the eastern end of the peninsula.