Seven Sisters Road, N4

In 1833, Seven Sisters Road was laid out providing a link from Tottenham to Holloway.

Looking north up Seven Sisters Road at Finsbury Park on 26 July 1932
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Seven Sisters Road runs from Holloway Road at the Nags Head crossroads, then on to another crossroads with Blackstock Road and Stroud Green Road. It carries on uphill alongside Finsbury Park to Manor House, and from there downhill to the junction with Tottenham High Road at Seven Sisters Corner. The road was constructed in 1833 by the Metropolitan Turnpike Trust.

The Seven Sisters, to which the road heads, were a circle of seven elm trees at the southern end of Tottenham High Road. After construction, large swathes of the land to either side of the new highway remained open farmland until late in the 19th century.

The stretch running past Finsbury Park is still open to the park on the west side, and on the east side are large Victorian villas, now used mainly as hotels.

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The Avenue, Finsbury Park (early 1900’s) Old London postcard TUM image id: 1620384821 Licence:	Finsbury Park platform art Credit: Annabel Grey TUM image id: 1602070648 Licence:	View of Nicholls House on the Woodberry Down Estate from the northeast (1981) Built in the late 1940s, the Woodberry Down Estate fell on hard times and was largely demolished in the early twenty first century. Credit: Prof. Miles Glendinning TUM image id: 1625784498 Licence:	Clissold Park is an open space in Stoke Newington. It is bounded by Greenway Close (to the north), Stoke Newington Church Street (to the south) and Green Lanes (west) and Queen Elizabeth’s Walk (east). It was named by the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington, which was the local authority when the park was established. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1616780666 Licence:	Queen’s Drive, N4 with its typical turn-of-the-twentieth-century architecture stretches south east from Finsbury Park. Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1624883072 Licence:
Amwell Court Built by Stoke Newington Borough Council on a bomb site. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1686928735 Licence:	Postcard from the turn of the twentieth century titled ’Finsbury Park - A shady walk’ Old London postcard TUM image id: 1620384187 Licence:	Seven Sisters Road and Woodberry Down (1895) Credit: Hackney Library Services TUM image id: 1624018328 Licence:	William Patten, the first Lord of the Manor of Stoke Newington TUM image id: 1687168094 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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View of Nicholls House on the Woodberry Down Estate from the northeast (1981) Built in the late 1940s, the Woodberry Down Estate fell on hard times and was largely demolished in the early twenty first century.
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Queen’s Drive, N4 with its typical turn-of-the-twentieth-century architecture stretches south east from Finsbury Park.
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Amwell Court Built by Stoke Newington Borough Council on a bomb site.
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Postcard from the turn of the twentieth century titled ’Finsbury Park - A shady walk’
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Seven Sisters Road and Woodberry Down (1895)
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William Patten, the first Lord of the Manor of Stoke Newington
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