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'''Manor House''' is a district in the [[London Borough of Hackney]]. Located in [[North London]], it lies immediately east of [[Finsbury Park]], west of [[Stamford Hill]] and south of [[Harringay]]. 

The area was originally known as Woodberry Down. However, the construction of the [[Seven Sisters Road]] and the consequent establishment of the Manor House Tavern gave rise to the alternative name ''Manor House Crossroads''<ref>North London Mercury and Crouch End Echo, Nov 11 1899</ref> and with the arrival of the [[Manor House tube station|tube station]] in 1932, the area immediately around the tube station began to be known as Manor House. The demolition of the once very fashionable area of Woodberry Down and its replacement with one of London's biggest public housing estates resulted in 'Woodberry Down Estate' being used to refer to the public housing area and 'Manor House' for the area beyond. With the regeneration of the area during the early part of the 21st Century, the area is now being referred to once again by its nineteenth-century name of 'Woodberry Down'.

==Location==
Built up during the middle part of the nineteenth century as part of an area called Woodberry Down, Manor House is now a small district without a formal town centre, but distant enough from other town centres that it has come to be referred to as an area. Taking its name from the Manor House Tavern (see below), via the [[Manor House tube station]], it is centred at the junction of [[Seven Sisters Road]] and [[Green Lanes (London)|Green Lanes]]. The western border is defined by Finsbury Park in the neighbourhood of [[Harringay]]. Its other borders are defined by the New River, which loops around it on three sides.<ref>[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=207812523257998221792.0004bd0af3b5cc0c16a5c&msa=0&ll=51.571602,-0.092268&spn=0.019898,0.038581 Google map showing the rough boundaries of Manor House.]</ref> The area consists mainly of the Woodberry Down development and the Woodberry Down reservoirs. The reservoirs were constructed in 1833 to purify the New River water and to act as a water reserve. The East reservoir is now a nature reserve known as [[Woodberry Wetlands]], following a redevelopment in 2016 as part of the wider regeneration of Woodberry Down, and the West Reservoir is now a leisure facility, offering sailing, canoeing and other water sports. On its western edge stands the former filter house, now set out as a visitor centre with a café; some of the old hydraulic machinery can be viewed in the main hall. The pumping station at the reservoir gates, converted to a climbing centre in 1995 was designed in a distinctive castellated style by Robert Billings under the supervision of William Chadwell Mylne and built in 1854–56.
<ref>Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner, London 4: North, London, Penguin, 1999, p. 540</ref>
There are also two small shopping areas, playgrounds, three schools and a pub.
 
[[File:BC - Manor House copy sm.png|thumb|360px|left|Manor House, looking East along [[Seven Sisters Road]], c 1905]]
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==History==
===Early development===
Prior to any building development, the area was part of the demesne lands of [[Stoke Newington]] Manor. It was also part of the near coterminous [[civil parish#ancient parishes|ancient parish]] and [[Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington]].

The area was known as 'Berrie Down Wood' in the seventeenth century and 'Wood Berry Downs Meadow' a hundred years later.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Posted by Hugh on April 23 |first1=2016 at 14:12 in Local History (See History Group for main postings) |last2=Discussions |first2=View |title=How Woodberry Down Got its Name (and maybe Manor House too) |url=https://harringayonline.com/forum/topics/how-woodberry-down-got-its-name-and-maybe-manor-house-too |access-date=2022-12-01 |website=harringayonline.com |language=en}}</ref>

Building started on Green Lanes with the appearance in 1821 of a large house at a spot that would later be the site of the junction with Woodberry Down (the road). Further north on Green Lanes, just to the south of the New River, Northumberland House, a three-storeyed building with a pillared entrance, balustrade, and urns on its roof, was completed in 1822.<ref>Original plans of Northumberland House in Bulletin 51, Pickering & Chatto, May 2016</ref><ref>Whilst no evidence has yet been unearthed that links the house to the Percys, the Dukes of Northumberland, the presence of the Percy lion over the gates suggests that there may have been a link. The Percys also had a historic connection to the area, once owning a house on Newington Green (Old and New London: Volume 2. Originally published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London, 1878)</ref>  It was sold for conversion to a 'private lunatic asylum' in 1826<ref>Morning Advertiser, page 1, 13 November 1826,London</ref> It was then used as a private mental hospital until it was demolished in 1955.<ref>Roberts, Andrew. [http://www.studymore.org.uk/3_06.htm#NorthumberlandHouse Northumberland House], The 1832 Madhouse Act and the Metropolitan Commission in Lunacy from 1832, Middlesex University, accessed 11 November 2009. Roberts cites Murphy, Elaine (2000) ''The Administration of Insanity in East London 1800-1870'' PhD Thesis, University of London.</ref> One of its most famous patients was [[Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot]], first wife of the American poet [[T.S. Eliot]],<ref>Seymour-Jones, Carole. ''Painted Shadow'', Doubleday 2001.</ref> who lived at the hospital from 1938 until her death in 1947.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2001-10-14 |title=Painted Shadow: A Life of Vivienne Eliot by Carole Seymour-Jones |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/oct/14/features.review |access-date=2022-12-01 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref>

A thatched cottage, with Gothic windows, was constructed on the boundary with the borough of Tottenham by 1825. Woodberry Down Cottages, four detached houses on the south side of Woodberry Down, had been built by 1829. Manor House tavern was built nearby in 1830. With the development of Finsbury Park almost a certainty, the land to the south and east of the present-day park was acquired by the [[Ecclesiastical Commissioners]] as ideal for building. The park was laid out between 1857 and 1869 and the adjacent land was sold to builders.

During the 1860s, Thomas John Angell, who appears to have been a speculator rather than a builder,<ref name=Baker/> built Finsbury Park Villas. This was a terrace of at least twelve houses, which, starting with the Finsbury Park Tavern, ran northward along Green Lanes from its junction with the new Woodberry Grove.

At around the same time, Angell and a London builder Thomas Oldis were responsible for development that began to spread eastward along the north side of Seven Sisters Road. From 1868 to 1870 large detached houses with gardens running down to the New River were built at the east end of Seven Sisters Road. In 1867 {{convert|3|acre|m2}} were leased on the southern side of the eastern end of the road, for the building of four detached or nine 'substantial' houses; three detached houses were built by 1871. An architect, William Reddall of Finsbury, was one of those who leased the houses.<ref name=Baker/> Woodberry Down was laid out in 1868, when it was extended eastward from Lordship Road, and villas were built on the south side in the late 1860s. The area was the northern section of a district called Brownswood Park (named after Brownswood Manor) and was regarded as a particularly select suburb.<ref name=Baker/>

However, with the increasing suburbanisation of the area, mainly for the middle and lower middle classes, many of the original families had moved out by 1895 and others were being replaced by poorer people in 1913. Social decline continued, until in 1954 the district was inhabited mainly by students, foreigners, and the working class, with most houses containing four or five families and all in decay.<ref name=Baker/>

===Twentieth-century redevelopment – the Woodberry Down Estate===
From 1949 through to the 1970s much of the area was redeveloped, the old houses being demolished and replaced with a large council development known locally as Woodberry Down. The [[London County Council|LCC]] compulsorily purchased the area for this purpose in 1934 in order to alleviate chronic housing shortages, but work did not begin till after the [[World War II|Second World War]]. Construction began in 1949 and the 57 blocks of flats were completed in 1962.

Initially, the estate offered greatly improved living conditions for tenants. However, over time, the estate suffered the problems of comparably idealistic, post-war, social housing projects. By the late 1980s, many of the flats were in a poor state of repair, while many more were empty and boarded up with metal shutters.

===1980s squatter community===
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s the increasing number of abandoned properties on the estate became occupied by a growing squatter community.  The squatters at Woodberry Down Estate were predominantly young punks from all over the UK and Ireland. Several had squatted previously in the [[Noel Park]] area in [[Wood Green]]. The squatters’ relationship with tenants ranged from amicable to antagonistic, but the two communities generally managed to co-exist without too much hostility. The strong community spirit, which existed among residents in the 1950s was still evident to a lesser extent during this time, and the estate managed to avoid the more extreme crime and social problems often associated with inner-city housing projects. The sharp increase in numbers of squatters has clear links to the huge increases in homelessness in London that resulted from [[Thatcherite]] policies, such as the [[Right to Buy]] scheme (introduced in the [[Housing Act 1980]]).<ref>[https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=20097 Thatcherite policies condemned for causing 'unjust premature death']</ref>

==The Manor House Tavern==
[[File:Manor House Tavern Looking N 1860 for Wiki.png|thumb|360px|right|The Original Manor House pub, looking north towards [[Harringay]], c.1860]]
The tavern was the source of the name of the tube station and consequently the immediate vicinity. The first tavern on the site was built by Stoke Newington builder Thomas Widdows<ref name=Baker>T. F. T. Baker & [[Ralph Pugh|R. B. Pugh]] (Editors), A History of the County of Middlesex, Volume 6: Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey with Highgate, Accessed online at [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol6 British History Online], 1976</ref> between 1830 and 1834<ref>Baker & Pugh (see previous reference) state that the pub was built "'''by''' 1832". However, the pub's first landlord advertised is as a new building in 1834, see below</ref> next to the [[Turnpike trust|turnpike]] on Green Lanes. Prior to this date a cottage had existed on the site,<ref>Described as "Cottage and Garden. On the Eastern Side of the Green Lanes, opposite the Road leading to Hornsey Wood House" in the Schedule of the Act to amend an Act of the Seventh Year of His Present Majesty for Consolidating the Trusts of the Several Turnpike Roads in the Neighbourhood of the Metropolis, North of the River Thames, and to make and maintain Two New or Branch Road to communicate with the said Metropolis Road, pp 853-863 of The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 11, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1829". The cottage was built c. 1810. No building is shown on map OSD 152 / Serial 104 Hampstead 1807 - 08 at Hackney Archives, but one does appear on the 1814 Map of the Parish and Prebendal Manor of the Parish of Stoke Newington, also at Hackney Archives. On Crutchley's 1829 map, the building is labelled as "Lodge", a term often used at the time to refer to a very respectable villa type dwelling.</ref> but in 1829 an Act of Parliament was passed to permit the building of the Seven Sisters Road. Thomas Widdows was both the owner of the house and its occupant.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Posted by Hugh on December 17 |first1=2016 at 9:43 in Local History (See History Group for main postings) |last2=Discussions |first2=View |title=History of the Manor House Pub |url=https://harringayonline.com/forum/topics/history-of-the-manor-house-pub?commentId=844301%3AComment%3A954164 |access-date=2022-12-01 |website=harringayonline.com |language=en}}</ref> With the building soon to be sited on the junction of the existing Green Lanes turnpike road and the new Seven Sisters Road, Widdows no doubt saw a roadside tavern as an excellent investment.

The new building was within sight of the Hornsey Wood Tavern, which had been formed out of the old Copt Hall, the manor house of the Manor of Brownswood.<ref name=Baker/><ref>See also [[History of Harringay - Prehistory to 1750#Settlement|Settlement section in History of Harringay Prehistory to 1750]]</ref> It is possible that its name was taken from this connection.<ref>This was certainly the belief of Edwardian author [[JJ Sexby]] who wrote in his 1905 book, "In the neighbourhood of the (Finsbury) park we still have Brownswood Road and Manor-House Tavern to remind us of the Manor of Brownswood and of its manor-house, which has now disappeared" (''The Municipal Gardens, and Open Spaces of London'', Lt-Col J. J. Sexby, Elliot Stock 1905).</ref> The land itself however was on the demesne of Stoke Newington Manor.<ref>A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8, Islington and Stoke Newington Parishes, Victoria County History, London, 1985. Pages 143-151.</ref> At around the time that the pub was first built, on the southern boundary of the demesne, on Church Street, a school called Manor School was operating.<ref>A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8, Islington and Stoke Newington Parishes, Victoria County History, London, 1985, Pages 217-223</ref> The school was next door to the trading premises of Thomas Widdows, builder of the pub. So it is equally possible that  the 'Manor House' name was just a fashionable name, more related to the connection with [[Stoke Newington]] Manor.

Robert Baily, the first of many Manor House Tavern landlords, described his establishment as a 'public house and tea-gardens'<ref>Morning Advertiser, 26 June 1837.</ref> He placed the following advertisement in the Morning Advertiser on 30 June 1834.

{{cquote|Robert Baily, late of the Eyre Tavern, St John’s Wood, having taken the above newly erected House, fitted up in a most superior manner, and commanding extensive and delightful views, solicit from his friends and the public that support he has hitherto been favoured with, assuring them that no exertion shall be wanting on his part to merit their patronage. The Grounds adjoining are admirably calculated for Cricket, Trap-ball, or any other amusement requiring space. There is likewise a large Garden and Bowling green, good Stabling, lock-up Coach-houses, &c. Dinners for Public and Private Parties. An Ordinary on Sundays at two o’clock.}}

Baily died just three years later. In 1838 the tavern was taken over by George Stacey who had previously been at the Adelaide Tavern in Hackney Road.<ref>in November 1839 various newspapers carried the announcement of the bankruptcy of William Tombleson described as "late of the Manor-house tavern, Stoke Newington, tavern-keeper, publisher, dealer and chapman" (Wiltshire Independent - 28 November 1839). So it may well be that Tombleson took over the pub after Baily but didn't last long.</ref> The tavern changed hands again several times after Stacey.<ref>The Morning Advertiser of 31 July 1849 notes a change of licensee from Catherine Harris to William Burnell. Records also show a Michael Harris insured as a victualler at the tavern in 1840 (Nat Archives ref MS 11936/567/1323901); no doubt this is Catherine's husband. So it may well have been the Harrises who were running the pub at the time of the royal visit.</ref>

On 25 October 1843 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert 'visited' the pub when they were travelling by carriage from Windsor to [[Cambridge]]. The route included the still relatively new [[Seven Sisters Road]] and a stop was made at the Manor House Tavern for the first change of horses.<ref>Queen Victoria's Journal in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, via [http://www.armingford.net/wimpole/victoria.htm www.armingford.net] and William James Roe, Tottenham, Edmonton and Enfield Historical Notebook: With Some Incidental Notices of Harringay (or Hornsey), London 1952</ref> A tablet with the following inscription was placed on the side of the pub.

{{cquote|'''QVEENE VICTORIA HALTED HERE<br />YE 25TH Oct A.D.<br />1843'''}}

In 1851 it was purchased by James Toomer.<ref>Morning Advertiser, 9 August 1851, and Clerkenwell News, 10 July 1858</ref> According to the ''Morning Post'',  Toomer was 'well respected in literary and theatrical circles'.<ref>The Morning Post - Saturday 31 May 1851</ref> The new owner added function rooms including a banqueting hall and ballroom which became known as the Manor House Assembly Rooms. Soon after purchase he obtained licences for both music and dancing and the pub became a regular venue for events of both sorts.<ref>London Evening Standard, 6 October 1854</ref> In the summer of 1870 Toomer advertised a new ballroom<ref>Hackney and Kingsland Gazette, 4 June 1870</ref> and later that summer sold the pub. The advertisement of sale gave the following description:

{{cquote|'''The Manor House, Roadside Inn and Wine Vaults'''

The above property has for years been recognised as one of the best in its class which is amply testified by the enormous and peculiarly profitable trade attached thereto; and in order that no misconception may arise as to the nature of the business, the auctioneers deem it wise to announce the tavern business and trade dinners have been discontinued for several years and the present returns are entirely confined to the counter and grounds from which sources they amount upwards are £5,000 pounds per annum.<ref>Morning Advertiser - Monday 18 July 1870</ref>}}

The building was bought by John Charles Kay who sold it two years later to Samuel Perrin <ref>The Morning Advertiser of 2 July 1872.</ref> A further change of ownership in 1878 saw the pub in the hands of Stephen Medcalf.  In 1879 Morris Benjamin made an application to renew the music and dancing licence as the licensee.<ref>Notice of Intention to Apply; an Application for Renewal of a Music and Dancing Licence from Morris Benjamin, Licensed Victualler, of The Manor House, Green Lanes, held at London Metropolitan Archives</ref>   In 1890 it was taken on by James Swinyard  who remodelled and modernised it shortly after the sale. Swinyard managed the pub till his death  in 1910. Subsequently, his widow Amelia took over the licence until the late 1920s.  In 1930 the imminent arrival of the Piccadilly Line led to the widening of the road, the demolition of the old tavern <ref>North London Recorder, 28 February 1930</ref> and the erection of current building. Behind the new building, offices were built for [[London Passenger Transport Board|London Transport]]<ref>Although the latter building still exists, [[Transport for London]] no longer occupies it.</ref> To the chagrin of her sons, Amelia Swinyard sold the pub to a buyer who then received the compensation when the pub's land was taken to accommodate these buildings.  Amelia died in October 1937, aged 90 at the Kenwood Nursing Home in Muswell Hill.

In later years the pub was the first employer of [[Richard Desmond]], now the owner of the [[Daily Express]] and [[Daily Star (United Kingdom)|Daily Star]]. The building also housed a nightclub<ref>in a room on the first floor [http://www.myspace.com/catacombnightclub 'The Catacomb' nightclub] accessed 14 April 2007</ref> that was popular among [[Goth subculture|Goth]]s in the mid-1980s. Two decades earlier it had functioned as a music venue called the Bluesville R.& B. Club, hosting artists such as [[Cream (band)|Cream]], [[Georgie Fame]] and the Blue Flames, [[Long John Baldry]] and his Hoochie Coochie Men, [[Rod Stewart]] (then nicknamed 'Rod the Mod'), [[John Mayall's Bluesbreakers]], [[the Jimi Hendrix Experience]], [[Fairport Convention]], [[Fleetwood Mac]], [[Jeff Beck]], [[the Spencer Davis Group]], [[Graham Bond]] and [[Zoot Money]].<ref>[https://harringayonline.com/group/historyofharringay/forum/topics/singing-the-blues-and-all-that-jazz-music-at-manor-house-1959-200 Singing the Blues and All that Jazz: Music at Manor House 1959 - 2004] A full history of music at the Manor House pub.</ref> The ground floor of the building is now occupied by Evergreen supermarket and Simply Organique Café.

== The area in the twenty-first century==
Since 2007, Woodberry Down has been undergoing a phased redevelopment which involved the construction of more than 5,500 modern flats on the site, 41% of which will be affordable, for an investment of c. £1bn.<ref>[http://www.lda.gov.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.235 GLA press release 27 Jul 2001] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927031921/http://www.lda.gov.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.235 |date=27 September 2007 }} accessed 14 April 2007</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Woodberry Down Case Study|url=https://www.berkeleygroup.co.uk/media/pdf/t/e/FINAL_CASE_STUDY-v1.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref> The plan was initially conceived during a time of economic growth under the [[New Labour]] administration in the late 1990s. In 2002, a structural assessment concluded that 54% (31 out of 57 existing buildings) were beyond economic repair. To progress the redevelopment, [[Hackney Council]] struck a deal with [[Genesis Housing Association]] and [[Berkeley Homes]] for the estate's demolition and redevelopment. The [[urban regeneration]] project has been amongst the largest in the UK and is due to complete in 2035.

In 2021, the construction of a Travelodge hotel opposite the tube station was completed.

===Phases of the redevelopment===
* Phase 1 comprised a number of sites across Woodberry Down. The construction started in 2009 and was completed in 2019. It included the construction of the [[Skyline (London)|Skyline]], tallest residential building in North London.
* Phase 2 comprises an area of 4.3 hectares, south of Seven Sisters Road, east of Green Lanes and north of the West Reservoir. This phase involves the construction of 4 buildings, totalling 850 homes (of which 109 are social rented, 200 shared ownership and 543 private), and was completed in 2022.<ref>[https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/public%3A//public%3A//PAWS/media_id_430288///block_B_phase_2_woodberry_down_report.pdf Phase 2 planning]</ref>
* Phase 3 was approved by the Planning Committee in September 2020. The area covers 2.2 hectares at the southeast corner of Seven Sisters Road and Woodberry Grove, where 4 residential blocks of 6 to 20 storeys are to be constructed, comprising 584 new homes (of which 117 are for social rent, 126 for shared ownership and 341 private). The plan also includes the construction of a public park and the addition of 175 new trees. An energy centre, which will provide heat to the whole development, will also be built on the site. Works were originally expected to commence in 2017 but did not start until 2020, with the first homes expected to be completed by 2024.<ref>[https://news.hackney.gov.uk/woodberry-down-phase-3-update/ Phase 3 approval]</ref>
* Phase 4 comprises the area at the southwest corner of Seven Sisters Road and Woodberry Grove. It was originally estimated to commence in 2020 with completion from 2023.
* Phase 5 comprises the area south of Seven Sisters Road, north of the East Reservoir and east of Phase 3. It was originally estimated to commence in 2023 with completion from 2027.
* Phase 6 comprises the area at the northwest corner of Seven Sisters Road and Woodberry Grove. It was originally estimated to commence in 2026 with completion from 2029.
* Phase 7 comprises the area north of Seven Sisters Road at the eastern edge of the development. It was originally estimated to commence in 2029 with completion from 2032.
* Phase 8 comprises the area at the northeast corner of Green Lanes and Woodberry Grove. It was originally estimated to commence in 2032 with completion from 2035.<ref>[https://estatewatch.london/images/woodberrys106.pdf Phases dates of the development]</ref>

===Prizes and awards===
* The first phase of the development produced 117 homes let by Genesis on social rents, and won the top prize for social housing at the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'' British Homes Awards 2011.<ref>[http://www.housingnet.co.uk/housingnet-news-html/Genesis_Scoops_Top_Social_Housing_Prize_At_Daily_Telegraph_Awards5188.html Genesis scoops top social housing prize at Daily Telegraph awards], 29 September 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-30.</ref>
* The development also won the project of the year award and the regeneration project award in 2018 from the [[Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors]] (RICS).<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=16 May 2018|title=RICS awards 2018|url=https://issuu.com/ricsmodus/docs/rics_awards_2018_london|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref>

===Controversies===
The redevelopment has been controversial,<ref>[http://www.tmponline.org/2012/06/28/woodberry-down-in-hackney-how-regeneration-is-tearing-up-another-east-london-community/ Couvée, K, Woodberry Down in Hackney: How ‘Regeneration’ is Tearing up Another East London Community]</ref> with some commentators calling the plans 'state sponsored [[gentrification]]'.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/18/-sp-truth-about-gentrification-how-woodberry-down-became-woodberry-park  Chakrabortty, A and Robinson-Tillett, S The truth about gentrification: regeneration or con trick?]. The redevelopment was originally marketed as "Woodberry Park", but the original name was reinstated after protests</ref>

== Governance ==

The area covers the '''Woodberry Down ward''' which is one of the wards in the [[London Borough of Hackney]]. Latest elections at the ward were held on 22 May 2014. There were 6,417 eligible voters and a turnout of 40.8%.
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  |candidate  = '''Jon Burke'''
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  |candidate  = Topsy Coffer
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  |candidate  = Efrayim Goldstein
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  |candidate  = Myall Alain Hornsby
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  |party      = Green Party of England and Wales
  |candidate  = Anna Hughes
  |votes      = 281
  |percentage = 11.7
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  |party      = Green Party of England and Wales
  |candidate  = Karen Rachel Kelly Moss
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  |party      = Conservative Party (UK)
  |candidate  = Chaya Odze
  |votes      = 419
  |percentage = 17.5
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Labour Party (UK)
  |candidate  = '''Caroline Selman'''
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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hackney.gov.uk/elections-2014-results|title = European parliamentary, council and mayoral elections 22 May 2014 &#124; Hackney Council}}</ref>

==Demography==
At the time of the 2011 census, there were 8,758 residents in Woodberry Down. The Woodberry Down Ward census findings revealed 50.0% of Woodberry Down's population was White (27.6% British, 19.9% Other, 2.3% Irish and 0.2% Gypsy or Irish Traveller). 25.4% was Black (6.4% Caribbean, 15.6% African, 3.4% Other), 10.3% was Asian (1.9% Indian, 0.8% Pakistani, 2.4% Bangladeshi, 2.2% Chinese and 3% Other) and 14.4% was other ethnic groups.

41.9% of the ward were Christian, 17.9% Muslim, 9.2% Jewish, 2.8% other religion, 17.9% had no religion and 10.6% did not state their religion.
<ref>[https://hackney.gov.uk/hackney-ward-profiles Woodberry Down Ward Profile] (November 2015)
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==Image gallery==
<gallery>
File:Manor House stn main entrance.JPG|Manor House tube station entrance on the western side of Green Lanes, north of Seven Sisters' Road
File:NichollHouseWoodberryDown.JPG|Nicholl House (now demolished) was part of the Woodberry Down Estate. It has been falsely reported that the building featured in the film [[Schindler's List]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The truth behind the rumour Schindler's List was filmed on an North East London council estate |url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/truth-behind-rumour-schindlers-list-20000690 |website=MyLondon|date=9 March 2021 }}</ref> 
File:WoodberryParkView.JPG|View from a flat in the new development at Woodberry Down, March 2012
File:Skyline, Woodberry Down, London, UK.jpg|[[Skyline (London)|Skyline]] tower at Woodberry Down
File:The New River by the Woodberry Down Estate.jpg|The New River through Woodberry Down
File:Stoke Newington East Reservoir.jpg| [[Woodberry Wetlands]] East Reservoir
File:Stoke newington castle 1.jpg|The Castle Climbing Centre next to the West Reservoir, once the main Water Board pumping station
</gallery>

==Education==
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The area has 3 schools and 1 public library:

*Woodberry Down Community Primary School (State-funded primary school)<ref>[http://www.learningtrust.co.uk/schools/primary_schools/primary_list.aspx Learning Trust - primary schools list]</ref>
*[[Skinners' Academy]] (State-funded secondary school)<ref>[http://www.learningtrust.co.uk/schools/secondary_schools/ Learning Trust - secondary schools list]</ref>
*Beis Chinuch Lebonos Girls School (Independent school)
* Woodberry Down Library (Public library)<ref>[https://hackney.gov.uk/woodberry-down-library Woodberry Down Library]</ref>

==Transport and locale==

===Nearby places===
* [[Harringay]]
* [[Finsbury Park (area)|Finsbury Park]]
* [[Seven Sisters, London|Seven Sisters]]
* [[Stamford Hill]]
* [[Stoke Newington]]

===Nearest railway stations===
* [[Manor House tube station]]
* [[Harringay Green Lanes railway station]]
* [[Finsbury Park station]]
* [[Seven Sisters station]]
* [[Stamford Hill railway station]]

===Bus routes===
The following bus routes serve Manor House: [[London Buses route 29|29]], [[London Buses route 141|141]], [[London Buses route 253|253]], [[London Buses route 254|254]], [[London Buses route 259|259]], [[London Buses route 279|279]], [[London Buses route 341|341]] (24 hour) and Night Bus routes [[London Buses route N29|N29]], [[London Buses route N253|N253]] and [[London Buses route N279|N279]].

==References and notes==
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==External links==
* [http://www.harringayonline.com/photo/albums/historical-images-of-manor-house-woodberry-down-1 Harringay Online - album of images of the Manor House area during the 19th and twentieth centuries]
* [http://www.harringayonline.com/group/historyofharringay/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=manor+house+%2F+woodberry+down Harringay Online - discussions about the history of the Manor House area from the history group]
* [http://www.harringayonline.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=manor+house+%2F+woodberry+down Harringay Online - discussions about the history of the Manor House area from the general forum]

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