Cherat is a hill station in the Nowshera district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The town was first used as a sanitarium for British troops in 1861, and eventually declared a cantonment in 1886.
By 1901, the population of the town had grown to 376, increasing to up to 1,000 in summer.
A fort in Cherat is now used by the Special Services Group of the army for training.