View of the spectator entrance of Eton Manor, the venue for wheelchair tennis during the Paralympics, at London 2012.
View of the spectator entrance of Eton Manor, the venue for wheelchair tennis during the Paralympics, at London 2012. Eton Manor is a sports and leisure venue in Leyton, London Borough of Waltham Forest. It was the northernmost venue of the Olympic Park and remains as a permanent venue as part of the 2012 Olympic legacy. 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 within Lee Valley Regional Park and is owned and run by Lee Valley Regional Park Authority. After the Olympic Games, Eton Manor will house the scaled down Olympic Hockey Centre relocated from further south in the Olympic Park. In 2010, the board of England Hockey put in a bid to host the Men's and Women's World Cups at the same time in 2014, but the competitions were awarded to The Hague,[5] with the FIH promising London a chance to hold an event in 2015 or 2016. Leyton Orient Football Club have expressed an interest in moving into the area in January 2011. In June 2011, the club made a presentation to the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority who will operate the site after the Games. 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
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Location: Olympic Park, Leyton, London.
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
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