Wembley

{| class="wikitable" style="float:right; font-size:85%; margin-left:10px; width:50%" |+Wembley (civil parish then Metropolitan Borough from its inception) population |- |colspan="2" | ◄ Split from Harrow on the Hill |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 1901 | style="text-align:center;"| 4,519 |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 1911 | style="text-align:center;"| 10,696 |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 1921 | style="text-align:center;"| 16,187 |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 1931 | style="text-align:center;"| 48,561 |- |colspan="2" | ◄ From abolition, 1 April 1934, of Kingsbury Urban District (1827 acres) until 1965 about, that is if static as at 1931, 16,636 residents, absorbed |- !…

The village of Wembley grew up on the hill by the clearing with the Harrow Road south of it. Much of the surrounding area remained wooded. In 1547 there were but six houses in Wembley. Though small, it was one of the wealthiest parts of Harrow. At the dissolution of the monasteries in 1543, the manor of Wembley fell to Richard Andrews and Leonard Chamberlain, who sold it to Richard Page, , of Harrow on the Hill, the same year. There was a mill on Wembley Hill by 1673. The Page family continued as lords of the manor of Wembley for several centuries and eventually commissioned Humphry Repton (1752–1818) the landscape gardener to design what is now Wembley Park. Wembley Park thus derived its…