Cheltenham is a township 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north-east of Feilding in the Manawatū District and Manawatū-Whanganui region in New Zealand's central North Island.

The settlement is named after Cheltenham in England, the home of one of the pioneer settlers, W.

[1] The town was home to the Cheltenham Co-operative Dairy Company, established in 1893.

Cheltenham Public School, which opened in 1886, closed in 2016 after 130 years of operating.

[2] Hato Paora College, is a state-integrated boys' Catholic secondary school for Year 9 to 13 students,[3][4] with a roll of 105 as of November 2024.