The son of a Wiltshire tenant farmer, Street was born at Ditchampton Farm, Wilton, near Salisbury, where he eventually took over the tenancy.
[3] First of all a working farmer, Street began to try his hand at writing as a way to supplement his farm income when it was severely reduced by prices falling during the great agricultural depression of the 1920s and 1930s.
[5] A critical work of 2006 brackets him with George Sturt, Adrian Bell, Henry Williamson, W. H. Hudson, H. J. Massingham, H. V. Morton, Constance Holme and Mary Webb.
During the Second World War he was a member of the Home Guard, on one occasion joining the chase for a missing German parachutist.
Street's books include the following, with year of publication: Street also wrote many newspaper and magazine articles and contributed to travel and other books, including: During the 1950s and early 1960s he co-edited a monthly journal, Country Fair, with Macdonald Hastings.