Tottenham (/ˈtɒtənəm/)[1][2] was a local government district in north east Middlesex from 1850 to 1965.

In 1850 a local board of health was established for the civil parish of Tottenham and in 1875 the local board became an urban sanitary authority, without change of name.

The arms was: "Gules a saltire couped or on a chief indented of the last a helm sable between two billets azure each charged with an estoile of the second."

The crest was: "Issuant from a mural crown or a demi-lion gules supporting a seax (sword) argent pomelled and hilted or".

The supporters were: "On either side a lion reguardant gules gorged with a mural crown pendant therefrom by a chain or a roundel; the dexter ermine and the sinister or, charged with a maunch also gules.