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The Jubilee Avenue was created in 1977 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, using Hornbeam trees.
The area had previously been an Elm lined walk that succumbed to Dutch elm disease during the mid-seventies and had to be felled.
The avenue follows the line of the back drive and formerly used to be the cart track along which cattle were herded to the farmyard (now the private area known as Wrestler's Lawn) for milking.
It is thought that the Elms were originally grown as a hedge lining the track that was allowed to grow to become large trees.
At the northern end of the avenue is a large stone urn placed by Lord Fairhaven to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the founding of the priory by Henry I.
On either side of the avenue are ditches, further remnants of the monastical fishponds and their water management systems.
A close mown grass walkway runs down the centre of the avenue, flanked in spring by alternate blocks of two varieties of Daffodils.
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