Wood Green

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**Wood Green**
Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	Maps for TQ305905
Administration
London borough:	Haringey
Area:	Greater London
Region:	London
Nation:	England
Other
Ceremonial county:	Greater London
Traditional county:	Middlesex
Police force:	Metropolitan Police
Post office and telephone
Post town:	LONDON
Postcode:	N22
Dialling code:	020
Politics
UK Parliament:	Hornsey and Wood Green
London Assembly:	Enfield and Haringey
European Parliament:	London
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Wood Green is a place in the London Borough of Haringey. It is a suburban development situated 6.1 miles (9.8 km) north of Charing Cross.

In the latter half of the 19th century and before urbanisation it was part of Tottenham and covered by woodland called Tottenham Wood, hence the name of the area, Tottenham Wood Green. Most of Wood Green is in the Hornsey and Wood Green parliamentary constituency.

In 1894 Wood Green was created an urban district and later a municipal borough of Middlesex. In 1965 with the formation of Greater London Wood Green was merged with Tottenham municipal borough and Hornsey municipal borough to form the present-day London Borough of Haringey.

It is an important local retail hub, with two cinemas, bars and a shopping centre - Shopping City - close to the tube station. The High Street, the main shopping spine, stretches from the Wood Green tube station to the next stop on the Piccadilly Line, Turnpike Lane. Wood Green Crown Court is a short distance along Lordship Lane.

SCHOOLS:

Primary:

Earlham Primary
Lordship Lane Primary
Nightingale Primary
Noel Park Primary
St.Michael's CoE Primary
St.Pauls RC Primary

Secondary:

Nearest places:

Nearest tube stations:

Bounds Green (Piccadilly Line)
Wood Green (Piccadilly Line)
Turnpike Lane (Piccadilly Line)

Image:Wood green shopping city.jpg Nearest railway stations:

Bowes Park
Alexandra Palace (formerly known as Wood Green Alexandra Park).

Until the 1960s, a railway line of the former Great Eastern Railway network crossed the Wood Green High Road, at a station called Noel Park, providing connections to Stratford and North Woolwich.

Current Affairs

On January 7 2003, British police announced details of the discovery of traces of the toxin ricin in a flat in Wood Green in the wake of the arrest of 6 terrorist suspects. A massive search for their accomplices followed. However it was later revealed more accurate tests showed that no ricin was in fact present in the flat, see Ricin-related arrests in Britain.