The avenue is actually two avenues, the first half, heading from the High Street was completed first. The second half, from the old Rectory towards the cemetery was afterwards. From W.G. Clarke’s “Guide to Brandon”, dated 1908 – “… a splendid avenue of lime trees, nearly half-a-mile in length, and reaching almost to the parish church … Until 1897 the avenue was only half the present length, but in that year a strip of land for the extension of the avenue, and for conversion into a public footpath, was given by Mr. Charles Gowing, of Hellesdon, and laid out by public subscription, “in commemoration of Queen Victoria’s reign”.
