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Ovenden
Location within West Yorkshire
Population12,351 (Ward. 2011)
OS grid reference SE081274
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town HALIFAX
Postcode district HX3,HX2
Police West Yorkshire
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53°44′36″N1°52′40″W / 53.743241°N 1.877863°W / 53.743241; -1.877863

Ovenden is a village in West Yorkshire, England, next to Boothtown and Illingworth about a mile from Halifax town centre. It is also a Calderdale Ward whose population at the 2011 Census was 12,351. [1]

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The area was scattered with pockets of Victorian streets and shops and nearby mills for the residents, after the second World War much of the rural area in-between the Victorian settlements was redeveloped with council housing, prefabricated buildings, shopping complexes,A secondary modern school,two primary schools one state run the other a Catholic one. A new Catholic Church was constructed to cater for the large Irish community that relocated to the area from West Central Halifax. The area is mainly working class although there is some affluent Victorian properties and steets mixed in with the social modern housing. [ citation needed ]

Ovenden railway station on the Halifax and Ovenden Junction Railway Line closed in 1955 to passengers but the line remained open until 1960 to allow freight train to access St Paul's station on the west side of Halifax. [2] It is now used as a garage with buildings constructed on the old rail line covering the front entrance of a tunnel that the trains used to run through. Parts of the television series Happy Valley were filmed in the Grove area of the village.[ citation needed ]

Ovenden rugby league club competed in the National Conference League up until 2015 before having to withdraw due to a lack of players and finance. [3] Similarly, Ovenden West Riding football team folded in August 2016 for the same reason of not having enough players to field a team. [4]

The Ridings School in Ovenden gained national notoriety as one of the worst schools in the UK. It closed in 2009 and parts of it have been converted into a doctors surgery and sports centre with rest of the school leased to a not-for-profit organisation, Threeways, who plan to open a community hub with fitness, sport and entertainment facilities. [5]

Champion Jack Dupree

In the 1970s and 1980s, Ovenden was the home of New Orleans blues and boogie woogie pianist Champion Jack Dupree. [6] A bronze plaque has been erected in his memory. [7]

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  2. ↑ Armour, Chris. "Ovenden". Disused Stations. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Rugby League: Ovenden pull out of National Conference League". Halifax Courier. 21 January 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "Prolific winners Ovenden WR fold". Halifax Courier. 4 August 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "Halifax Ridings School site in community takeover". BBC News. BBC. 15 July 2009. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  6. ↑ "Story of a boxing Champion". Halifax Courier. 15 November 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  7. ↑ "Small Town Saturday Night". HebWeb News. 15 October 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2014.

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