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When this avenue was planted in 1937, it was envisaged as an avenue of Plane trees stretching the 800 metres across from the back drive to the western boundary of the garden.
The intended Plane trees were interplanted with Horse Chestnuts as nurse trees, to protect them from the worst of the winds during their formative years.
Eight rows were originally planted with the view to thinning the rows down to form a large double avenue.
Unfortunately, during the summer of 1968, a violent storm wreaked havoc on both trees and plans - a large number of the Plane trees were damaged and had to be removed, thus the Coronation Avenue as we know it was formed.
Despite it being formed by default, the trees have more to offer in the way of flowers, fruit, and autumn colour than the Plane trees would have and have now earned there place here at Anglesey Abbey.
The western extension to the avenue was planted at a slightly later date than the main area, 1939, and extends from the pinnacles near the Cross Avenue to the farmland that forms the borrowed landscape to the west.
On either side of the Coronation Avenue, to the east of the Cross Avenue are four areas of grassland known as the Squares.
These are cultivated as meadowland, the emphasis being on their management as wildflower areas with regular assessments of populations and diversity, and how management can be improved to increase their numbers.
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