WEMBLEY  , an

urban district in the Harrow parliamentary division of Middlesex, England, 10 m . W.N.W. of St Paul's Cathedral, on the Metropolitan and London & North Western railways . Pop . (1901) 4519 . Wembley adjoins Sudbury on the east; the district is residential, but lacks natural attractions except in the case of Wembley Park, a pleasant wooded recreation ground, owned by a company . Here a tower was begun on the lines of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and projected to exceed it in height, reaching 1200 ft., but only a short stage was completed . The manor of Wembley belonged to the priory of Kilburn until that foundation was dissolved by Henry VIII .