Eton Manor

Eton Manor is a former sports and leisure venue in Leyton, London Borough of Waltham Forest. It is in the northernmost venue of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and remains as a permanent venue as part of the 2012 Olympic legacy. It is now known as Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre and is made up of four indoor and six outdoor tennis courts and two state-of-the art hockey pitches.

During the 2012 Summer Olympics, Eton Manor housed temporary training pools for participants in aquatics events, including three 50m pools for swimmers, and smaller pools for synchronised swimmers and water polo competitors.

For the 2012 Summer Paralympics it hosted the wheelchair tennis, with nine competition courts and four courts for warm-up. There were a total of 10,500 seats for spectators, with a 5,000-capacity centre court. The site covers 27 acres (11 ha) within Lee Valley Regional Park and is owned and run by Lee Valley Regional Park Authority.

Conversion work started after the end of the London 2012 Paralympic Games and Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre was opened to the public on 21 June 2014. A range of events and programmes, from grassroots to elite are held at the venue.

Eton Manor takes its name from Eton College, which from the 1880s had run a "mission" to raise living standards in the East End of London.

In 1909 four Old Etonian philanthropists founded Eton Manor Boys' Club to provide sporting facilities in the Hackney area, purchasing the former Manor Farm in 1913. In 1920 an old rubbish tip site was converted into the Club's new sports ground, known as The Wilderness. Facilities included nine football pitches, two rugby pitches, cricket pitches, six tennis courts, a bowling green, a squash court and a running track. Eton Manor Boys' Club closed in 1967 and the Club ground fell into disuse in 2001 before being selected for use during the 2012 Olympic Games.

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