Crumpsall

Crumpsall is a suburb some 3 miles to the north of Manchester, in the United Kingdom. It is divided into Higher and Lower Crumpsall, although Lower Crumpsall to the East in the valley of the river Irk is now a much reduced community following large amounts of enforced local authority demolition of the small terraced streets in the 1970s. The folk singer, Mike Harding, was brought up on Waterloo Street in Lower Crumpsall.

Related Topics:
Manchester - United Kingdom - Lower Crumpsall - River Irk - Mike Harding

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Higher Crumpsall is largely composed of houses and schools with little commerce or industry. It is also the location of a large hospital now known as North Manchester General Hospital. This was previously three hospitals: Crumpsall Hospital, Spingfield Hospital and Delauneys Hospital.

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The houses are largely Victorian in age ranging through Edwardian villas to more recent twentieth century houses.

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The area came to unwanted national prominence in 2004 when Detective Stephen Oakes, a Greater Manchester Police officer was fatally stabbed whilst arresting a suspected terrorist in a house on Crumpsall Lane. Oakes therefore became the first British national to be killed by Islamic terrorists in the "War On terror" on UK soil, a tragic distinction.

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