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. Location within the British Isles. ... Lower Crumpsall is a part of Crumpsall, a suburb some 3 miles to the north of Manchester in the UK. It is situated in the valley of the River Irk, which forms its northern boundary with the neighbouring suburb of Blackley at Tetlow Bridge [1]. It consited largely of several... The River Irk is a river in Greater Manchester in north-west England that flows through the northern suburbs of Manchester before merging with the River Irwell in the city centre. ... Mike Harding (born 1944) is a British singer/comedian. ...

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 3 hospitals: Crumpsall Hospital, Spingfield Hospital and Delauneys Hospital. Higher Crumpsall is a part of the Manchester suburb of Crumpsall in the UK Categories: UK geography stubs | Greater Manchester ...

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

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.