Notable People
Notable people from Alderley Edge include:
- The novelist Alan Garner, who spent much of his childhood there and used it as the principal scene of his fantasy classics The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath.
- Musician Bernard Sumner of Joy Division, New Order and Bad Lieutenant (band) lives here with his family, as does his band mate Peter Hook.
David Beckham and his family lived here until he was transferred to Real Madrid football club.
The area is also the home of a number of other affluent people, many of whom are multi-millionaires (particularly football players, pop stars and business people), including Manchester United players Rio Ferdinand and Michael Carrick. Former players Cristiano Ronaldo, and Mikaël Silvestre also used to live there and, as well as former Liverpool (now Stoke City) star Peter Crouch and well known footballer Andy Cole. A number of Coronation Street actors, including Denise Welch and Richard Fleeshman also live in the village. Other famous members of the community include property entrepreneur Peter Jones and TV presenter and voice-over artist Stuart Hall.
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