Wembley
Wembley is a district in the London Borough of Brent, north-west London, 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Charing Cross.

Wembley is a district in the London Borough of Brent, north-west London, 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Charing Cross. It includes the wards of Alperton, Barn Hill, Kenton, Northwick Park, Preston, Sudbury, Tokyngton and Wembley Central, Wembley Hill and Wembley Park. The population was 133,616 in 2021, an increase of 20,000 since 2011.
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Worth seeing in and around Wembley
5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Wembley Stadium
Wembley Stadium, branded as Wembley Stadium connected by EE for sponsorship reasons, is an association football stadium in Wembley, London, England. It opened in 2007 on the site of the original Wembley Stadium, which had stood from 1923 until 2000.
1.3 km · stadium in London, England · Wikipedia - 02Live Aid
Live Aid was a two-venue benefit concert and music-based fund-raising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985. The event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984.
1.3 km · Global concert raised massive funds for famine and had Queen's Iconic performance · Wikipedia - 03Wembley Arena
Wembley Arena is an indoor arena next to Wembley Stadium in Wembley, Greater London, England. The 12,500-seat facility is Greater London's second-largest indoor arena after the O2 Arena, and the ninth-largest in the United Kingdom.
1.2 km · indoor arena adjacent to Wembley Stadium in Wembley, London · Wikipedia - 04The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness
The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness, also known as A Concert for Life, was a benefit concert by British rock band Queen and a number of supporting artists. It took place on 20 April 1992, at Wembley Stadium in London, England.
1.3 km · 1992 benefit concert · Wikipedia - 05BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is a Hindu temple in Neasden, London, England. Built entirely using traditional methods and materials, the Swaminarayan mandir has been described as being Britain's first authentic Hindu temple.
2.6 km · Hindu temple · Wikipedia
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Getting to Wembley
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 14 km · London Luton (LTN), 36 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 46 km
- Stations
- Acton Town tube station, 5.7 km · Harrow & Wealdstone station, 5.1 km · Wembley Park tube station, 1.8 km · Willesden Junction station, 4.4 km · Stonebridge Park station, 1.9 km
- London → Wembley13 km · quickest by road, 54 min · £1.5–2
- London, Essex → Wembley13 km · quickest by road, 54 min · £1.5–2
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Wembley151 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £17–22
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Wembley
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Wembley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inMore entertainment than transport really, rickshaws run in Soho and the surrounding areas.
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