Wembley is a largely suburban town in north-west London, England in the ceremonial county of Greater London and the historic county of Middlesex. It is about 8 miles west-northwest of Charing Cross, and includes the neighbourhoods of Alperton, North Wembley, Preston, Sudbury, Tokyngton, and the partly high-rise district of Wembley Park. The population of the seven wards that approximately make it up totalled 102,856 as of 2011.
Wembley was for over 800 years part of the parish of Harrow in Middlesex. Its heart, the hamlet "Wembly Green", featured to the south-west a public house by 1722. Wembley Green was surrounded by agricultural manors and generally their hamlets, largely taken in to Wembley's final definitions. The small, narrow, Wembley High Street is a conservation area with a path to a replacement pub/hotel in the same protected zone. The railways of the London & Birmingham Railway reached Wembley in the mid-19th century, when the place gained its first church. Slightly south-west of the old core, the main station was originally called Sudbury but today is known as Wembley Central in the heart of town.