Cheetham Hill

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Cheethal Hill
Metropolitan borough	City of Manchester
Metropolitan county	Greater Manchester
Region	North West
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MANCHESTER
Postcode district	[[M postcode area|]]
Dial code	0161
Police	Greater Manchester
Fire	Greater Manchester
Ambulance	North West
European Parliament	North West England
List of places: UK • England • Greater Manchester

Cheetham Hill is a district of Manchester, England located approximately two miles to the north of Manchester city centre.

Home to the Cheetham Hill Village & Cheetham Hill Cricket Club, established in 1847, which is a mix of cultures and characters including Fred 'The Red' North.

Cheetham Hill is a multi-ethnic district of Manchester. infamous in the past for suffering problems with gang related violence, like that of Moss Side, Hulme and Longsight.

[edit] Notable residents

• Don Arden — manager of the Small Faces, ELO and father of Sharon Osbourne was born in Cheetham Hill.
• J. J. Thomson — English physicist who won the Nobel Prize for discoving the electron was born in Cheetham Hill.

See also Cheetham.

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