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