Wood Green was a local government district in south east Middlesex from 1888 to 1965.

[1] In 1894, under the local Government Act of that year, Wood Green became an urban district.

The shield featured yew trees and was supported by medieval archers, recalling that Wood Green had once been an area where archery was practised.

A silver and blue stripe across the centre of the shield depicted the New River.

The Latin motto was nostrum viret robur, which could be translated as our strength is a tree or more appropriately as Wood Green Flourishes.