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 Tottenham, had only sixteen houses and 50 inhabitants.

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 opening of the Great Northern Railway Line station at Wood Green in 1859 encouraged further development.

With the reorganisation of local government in the 1960s, Haringey Council was formed from the former boroughs of Wood Green, Hornsey and 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.

Since 2015, the seat has been represented in the House of Commons by the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) Catherine West.

[13] The Alexandra Palace, which is within Wood Green parish, played a leading role in the development of public service television.

In 1955, with the opening of Lew Grade's London weekend franchise Associated Television (ATV), the Wood Green Empire in Lymington Avenue was home to variety programmes on Independent Television (ITV); one of which was The Arthur Haynes Show, starring the host himself and his straight man Nicholas Parsons.

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.

[15] 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.

[16] 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.

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

[18] Its eastern and western boundaries have changed over time and today people have varying senses of what exactly is included in Wood Green.

A common definition would roughly describe it by a line running from the southwestern corner of Tottenhall Park, to the junction of The Roundway and Lordship Lane, then along Downhills Way as far as Belmont Avenue.

As of 2012, Wood Green has 120,757 square metres (1,299,820 sq ft) of total town centre floorspace.

[24] The Chocolate Factory was set up by Haringey Arts Council in 1996 to develop artists' studios and now has a second building.

Wood Green Fatih Mosque is on Caxton Road, sharing premises with Haringey Council of Asian People.

Indoor and outdoor tennis, all-weather football, an athletics track and gym are available at New River Stadium.

They annually hold the Middlesex 9s rugby league tournament which also takes place at the New River Stadium.