East End Road was originally the route from the hamlet of Church End Finchley to the old Great North Road when it ran through Muswell Hill.
Although apparently not so named until the late 19th century, it probably dated from the 14th-century growth of East End.
The road has had various names such as Manor Lane (19th century) and Finchley Road (18th century). In the medieval period a triangle of waste, called Hunts Green (1437), which stretched from Stanley Road to the Junction of Church Lane, was the location of the first hamlet of East End Finchley (1365).
