Cherat Cantonement, Pakistan
چراٹ
Cherat Cantonement is a town of 2,986 people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
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About Cherat Cantonement
Cherat (Pashto: چېراټ) is a hill station dating from the 1860s that is located immediately above the villages of Chapri, Bakhti, Saleh Khana, Kotli Kalan and Dak Ismail Khel in the Nowshera District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. Cherat lies 34 miles south east from the city of Peshawar at an elevation of 4,500 feet on the west of the Khattak range, which divides the district of Nowshera from Kohat District.
From the Wikipedia article Cherat (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
History
During British rule Cherat was important as a hill cantonment and sanitarium for British troops in what was then the Nowshera Tehsil of the Peshawar District of British India.
Cherat was first used as a sanitarium for troops in 1861 and was used during the hot weather as a health station for the British troops who were quartered in the hot and malarious valley of Peshawar. It was declared a cantonment in 1886. The cantonment commands a view of the whole of the Peshawar valley on one side, and on the other of a portion of the Khwarra valley in Peshawar District, and of Kohat District as far as the Indus.
A hospital, a church, and a few bungalows were built by the British authorities. The station, which has a good water supply, was throughout the summer the headquarters of the 1st (Peshawar) Division, and of one of the two British regiments stationed at Peshawar - a detachment of the other British regiment was also sent here.
There were 376 inhabitants according to the March 1901 Census, but in the hot season the garrison sometimes numbered 1,000 men.
From the History section of Cherat on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Bacha Khan International Airport (PEW) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 40 km away.
- Amangarh 21 km north, about 21 min by car
- Nowshera Kalan 23 km north, about 23 min by car
- Nowshera Cantonment 22 km northeast, about 22 min by car
- Pabbi 23 km northwest, about 23 min by car
- Risalpur Cantonment 28 km north, about 28 min by car
- Akora Khattak 29 km northeast, about 29 min by car
- Peshawar 36 km northwest, about 36 min by car
- Charsadda 39 km north, about 39 min by car
- Mardan 44 km north, about 44 min by car
- Bat Khela 89 km north, about 1 h 30 min by car
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