Cheetham Hill
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| Cheethal Hill | |
| Metropolitan borough | City of Manchester |
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| Metropolitan county | Greater Manchester |
| Region | North West |
| Constituent country | England |
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| Post town | MANCHESTER |
| Postcode district | [[M postcode area|]] |
| Dial code | 0161 |
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| 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.
- 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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