Acacia Avenue is a cliché in British culture. It is a placeholder name for an unexceptional middle-class suburban street. It is named for Acacia, a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs indigenous to Australia and New Guinea but grown ornamentally in the UK.
There are at least sixty Acacia Avenues in the United Kingdom, nine of them within Greater London.Master Atlas of Greater London
In Canada, the residence of the Leader of the Official Opposition, Stornoway, is located on Acacia Avenue in Ottawa, Ontario.
Gallery Examples of real-life Acacia Avenues:
In media 29 Acacia Avenue is a play by Denis and Mabel Constanduros. English heavy metal band Iron Maiden's song "22 Acacia Avenue" is about a fictional brothel in an innocuous London house. Comic character Bananaman lives at 29 Acacia Road. In "Her Majesty's Secret Service, after James Bond proposes to Tracy, (James): "Mr. and Mrs. James Bond." (Tracy): "of Acacia Avenue, Turnbridge Wells".
References
External links "Lives of Acacia Avenue revealed" - BBC News "Acacia Avenue - where they never grumble" - The Guardian