Named after the Manor House Tavern, a pub on Green Lanes.
Thomas Widdows built the first tavern between 1830 and 1834 by the Green Lanes turnpike, where the new Seven Sisters Road was to meet it. Its name may recall Brownswood manor, whose manor house, Copt Hall, had become the nearby Hornsey Wood Tavern; or it was just a fashionable name, linked to Stoke Newington Manor, on whose land it stood.