Editing Wood Green (section)

==History==
Records suggest that settlement around Wood Green did not start till after the [[Norman Conquest]].<ref name="Pinching1" /> There is some limited evidence of [[Roman Britain|Roman]] presence in the Wood Green area but none of any [[Saxon]] settlement. However, from the latter part of the 14th century, a number of estates developed around Wood Green.  This included the Manor of Ducketts and a handful of smaller estates.

In the early Seventeenth Century, the lord of Tottenham Manor, the [[Earl of Dorset]],  conducted a major survey of his land.  It showed that Wood Green, at the time roughly the Western half of [[Municipal Borough of Tottenham|Tottenham]], had only sixteen houses and 50 inhabitants.<ref name="Pinching1" /><ref name="Robinson">{{cite book|title=The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Tottenham, in the County of Middlesex|last=Robinson|first=William|publisher=Nicholls and Son|year=1840}}</ref>
[[File:“Round House” or “Mushroom House”, Wood Green, London.jpg|thumb|left|“Round House” or “Mushroom House”. Built in 1822 as the gatehouse for Chitts Hill House, this building still stands at the edge of Woodside Park in Wood Green. It is Grade II listed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.haringey.gov.uk/sites/haringeygovuk/files/haringey_statutory_listed_buildings_-_by_grade.pdf|title=London Borough of Haringey list of Listed Buildings by Grade|access-date=21 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811092547/http://www.haringey.gov.uk/sites/haringeygovuk/files/haringey_statutory_listed_buildings_-_by_grade.pdf|archive-date=11 August 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>]]
At around the same time as the Dorset Survey, the [[New River (London)|New River]] was constructed through Wood Green. Winding through the area, the river looped across Chitts Hill and then passed along the northern side of Wood Green Common before turning south. The proximity of Wood Green to the new watercourse enhanced the area's reputation and between the 17th and early 19th Century, several large properties were constructed in the area, initially as country retreats for wealthy Londoners. Such dwellings included Cherson House, Wood Green Cottage, Moat Cottage and the Grange, all of which were situated on the fringes of Wood Green Common and dated from the 17th Century. Later, Wood Green House (c. 1780), Chitts Hill House (c. 1805) and Bounds Green House were constructed at the perimeter of the common. Despite the development of these dwellings, by 1798 the population of Wood Green stood at just 100 inhabitants and remained scattered. It was centred at this period on Wood Green Common.
[[File:Prickett and Ellis Particulars.jpg|thumb|right|Notice for 1806 sale of land in Wood Green (Exact location unknown).]]
At the same time as the population was growing so was the traffic along [[Green Lanes (London)|Green Lanes]]. As a result, Wood Green's first inn and recognisable business appeared. In 1770 George Chesser established a blacksmith's shop on the corner of [[Green Lanes (London)|Green Lanes]] and [[Lordship Lane, Haringey|Lordship Lane]] (later known as Spouter's Corner). In 1781, the Three Jolly Butchers coaching inn was opened on the west side of Green Lanes between Lordship Lane and [[Bounds Green Road]].<ref name="Pinching1" />

During the early decades of the 19th Century, the number of inhabitants in the area began to increase significantly. By the middle of the nineteenth century the population had increased to 400<ref name="Pinching1" /> and the centre of Wood Green's gravity had moved north and east with most development taking place in a triangle directly north of [[St Michael and All Angels Church, Wood Green|St Michael's Church]].<ref>Few of the buildings of this era survive, but [[7 & 9 Bounds Green Road]] are still standing and are [[grade II listed building]]s.</ref> By the time of the publication of the 1869 [[Ordnance Survey]] map, Clarence Road, Truro Road, Nightingale Road, Finsbury Road and Commerce Road were all laid out and were becoming increasingly built up.

The opening of the [[Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)|Great Northern Railway]] Line station at Wood Green in 1859 encouraged further development. By the end of the nineteenth century, much of Wood Green had been built up. What remained was built over during the first part of the twentieth century.

The Victorian development was both residential and commercial in nature. Wood Green's industrial development was centred on the area bounded by Wood Green Common, the Great Northern Railway, Turnpike Lane and the High Street. Amongst the first companies to arrive in the early 1860s was E Welch & Co Tobacco Manufacturer. Then in short order came the Hornsey Steam Laundry, Henry A. Ivory & Co Piano Manufacturers and Davis and Timmins Screw Factory.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harringayonline.com/group/historyofharringay/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=wood+green+industry|title=Wood Green Industry|last=Flouch|first=Hugh J.|date=2018|publisher=Harringay Online History Group|access-date=13 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613161153/http://www.harringayonline.com/group/historyofharringay/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=wood+green+industry|archive-date=13 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1880, Barratts arrived and grew to be one of the biggest confectionery manufacturers of the twentieth century.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glias.org.uk/journals/8-b.html|title=Barratt & Co., Ltd., Manufacturing Confectioners, Wood Green|last=Plowright|first=Dennis G.|date=2004|publisher=Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society|access-date=13 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200205121213/http://www.glias.org.uk/journals/8-b.html|archive-date=5 February 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

As Wood Green's population grew, so did its high street. The earliest retail developments had been in Commercial Road and Finsbury Road during the 1860s. However, by the early 1880s retail activity was clearly shifting to the High Road. At first, it focussed on the area between White Hart Lane and Truro Road. As the population grew, retail growth south of [[Lordship Lane, Haringey|Lordship Lane]] began to exceed that north of it and by the end of the first decade of the twentieth Wood Green, High Street had become a popular shopping centre for North London. By 1976 Wood Green was the largest shopping centre in north London with a turnover of more than £20m.


With the reorganisation of local government in the 1960s, Haringey Council was formed from the former boroughs of [[Municipal Borough of Wood Green|Wood Green]], [[Municipal Borough of Hornsey|Hornsey]] and [[Municipal Borough of Tottenham|Tottenham]].  The new unified administration wanted to reinvent Wood Green as a ‘Heart for Haringey’. It was one of a number of new suburban centres intended to counteract the pull of Central London. [[The Mall Wood Green|The Shopping City]] was constructed between 1976 and 1981.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://c20society.org.uk/botm/wood-green-shopping-city-london/|title=Wood Green Shopping City, London — The Twentieth Century Society|website=c20society.org.uk|access-date=21 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221064731/https://c20society.org.uk/botm/wood-green-shopping-city-london/|archive-date=21 December 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Governance history===
Up to the nineteenth century, Wood Green came under the governance of the Manor and Parish of Tottenham. Tottenham developed from a parish in Middlesex into an Urban sanitary district in 1875, after a local board of health had been established in 1850.<ref>{{cite vob|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10164527&c_id=10001043|map=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/19|name=Tottenham parish|accessdate=10 February 2008|title=Archived copy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627103755/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10164527&c_id=10001043|archive-date=27 June 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1888, the [[Municipal Borough of Wood Green]] was created as an [[Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)|urban district]], and later a [[municipal borough]], of [[Middlesex]]. In 1965, under the [[London Government Act 1963]], the Municipal Borough of Wood Green was abolished and its area merged with that of the [[Municipal Borough of Tottenham]] and the [[Municipal Borough of Hornsey]] to form the present-day [[London Borough of Haringey]].<ref name="Pinching1" />

The constituency of [[Wood Green (UK Parliament constituency)|Wood Green]] was created in 1918 and existed until 1983 when it was split. Some of the constituency was transferred to the neighbouring seat of [[Tottenham (UK Parliament constituency)|Tottenham]], but most was merged with the [[Hornsey (UK Parliament constituency)|Hornsey]] parliamentary constituency to form the [[Hornsey and Wood Green (UK Parliament constituency)|Hornsey and Wood Green]] parliamentary constituency. Since 2015, the seat has been represented in the House of Commons by the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) [[Catherine West]].<ref name="Pinching1" />

===Post-war===
In mid century, Wood Green was known locally as the "Golden Mile of North London". Some shops and buildings were demolished in the 1960s and buildings were cleared to construct Shopping City, now known as [[The Mall Wood Green]], which is one of London's major shopping centres.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0dx_AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT58|title=Shopping, Place and Identity|isbn=9781134733910|last1=Jackson|first1=Peter|last2=Rowlands|first2=Michael|last3=Miller|first3=Daniel|date=20 September 2005|publisher=Routledge }}</ref>

====Entertainment history====
The [[Alexandra Palace]], which is within Wood Green parish, played a leading role in the development of public service television. It is now an events and entertainment venue hosting exhibitions, concerts and sporting events.

Wood Green also played its part in the history of commercial television in the UK. In 1955, with the opening of [[Lew Grade]]'s London weekend franchise [[Associated Television Network|Associated Television]] (ATV), the Wood Green Empire in Lymington Avenue was home to variety programmes on Independent Television ([[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]); one of which was ''The Arthur Haynes Show'', starring the host himself and his straight man [[Nicholas Parsons]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk/studio%20history.htm#wood%20green%20empire|title=TV Studio History|access-date=21 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717051915/http://www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk/studio%20history.htm#wood%20green%20empire|archive-date=17 July 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> Only the frontage of The Wood Green Empire survives. It is now a branch of the [[Halifax (United Kingdom bank)|Halifax]].

The now-demolished bus depot at Wood Green was used for [[location filming]] by [[London Weekend Television]] for their 1970s [[situation comedy]] ''[[On The Buses]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.onthebusesfanclub.com/id45.html|title=BUSES from the show|website=www.onthebusesfanclub.com|access-date=21 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222041811/http://www.onthebusesfanclub.com/id45.html|archive-date=22 February 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the 1940s and 1950s the [[Fishmongers Arms]] pub in Wood Green was a popular [[jazz]] venue, and in the 1970s it became a [[rock music]] venue, hosting early performances by musicians and bands including [[John Mayall's Blues Breakers]], [[Cream (band)|Cream]], [[Zoot Money]], [[Graham Bond]], [[Brian Auger]], [[Julie Driscoll]], [[Long John Baldry]], [[Joe Cocker]], [[Rod Stewart]], [[Fleetwood Mac]], [[Ten Years After]], [[The Groundhogs]], [[The Kinks]], [[Led Zeppelin]], [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]], and [[Pink Floyd]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bowesandbounds.org/m/blogpost?id=6278630%3ABlogPost%3A46792|title=Our Musical Heritage: Live at the Fishmongers Arms|website=Bowes and Bounds Connected|last=McKeever|first=Richard|date=26 September 2012|access-date=27 July 2020}}</ref>

===21st century===
As of 2018, Wood Green is the focus of two major regeneration programmes by the [[London Borough of Haringey]].
The [[Haringey Heartlands]] initiative covers an area to the west of the town centre, including the former Clarendon Gas Works, Olympia Trading Estate and land on Western Road. The programme aims to transform the area into a mixed sub-neighbourhood, with 1,700 homes, along with retail and office space. There are also plans for new public open space including a 'civic boulevard' linking the east and west of Wood Green and a public square for events and activities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.haringey.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning/planning-policy/local-plan/supplementary-planning-documents-spds|title=Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) – Haringey Council|website=www.haringey.gov.uk|access-date=21 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509031725/http://www.haringey.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning/planning-policy/local-plan/supplementary-planning-documents-spds|archive-date=9 May 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

The wider area of Wood Green is the focus of a second significant regeneration plan entering the final stages of consultation in early 2018. The Wood Green Area Action plan would see the transformation of Wood Green Town Centre with the creation of 6,400 new homes, 4,000 new jobs and a redeveloped town centre with a significant amount of high-rise building.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.haringey.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning/planning-policy/local-plan/wood-green-area-action-plan|title=Wood Green Area Action Plan – Haringey Council|website=www.haringey.gov.uk|access-date=21 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190611031852/http://www.haringey.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning/planning-policy/local-plan/wood-green-area-action-plan|archive-date=11 June 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

''Blue House Yard'' is a redevelopment of a former car park including creative work and retail space, a public square for markets and events.

Wood Green is also one of the suggested stations on the new Crossrail 2 transport development.