Cherat Hill

Cherat hill’s position gave commanding views over the Peshawar valley and toward Kohat/Indus, which made it strategically useful as well as climatically attractive to colonists. It began as a "hill sanitarium" in 1861, and became a full cantonment in 1886. It developed basic cantonment infrastructure as troops were brought to recuperate and avoid the summer heat and disease in the Peshawar plains.