Ovenden
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Shroggs Park and The Maltings College.
Shroggs Park
Park
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Shroggs Park is a park in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It covers 9.7 hectares and is Grade II listed with Historic England.
The Maltings College
College
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The Maltings College is a free school sixth form in Fountainhead, near Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. Established in 2013, The Maltings College is located at the former site of Webster's Brewery.
Bankfield Museum
Museum
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Bankfield Museum is a grade II listed historic house museum, incorporating a regimental museum and textiles gallery in Boothtown, Halifax, England. It is notable for its past ownership and development by Colonel Edward Akroyd, MP, and its grand interior.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Holmfield and Akroydon.
Holmfield
Suburb
Holmfield is an area of Halifax in West Yorkshire, England, 2 miles north of the town centre. Early maps show no village in the area. Holmfield was developed in the 19th century after a mill, known as Holme Field Mill, was built on Strines Beck in the township of Ovenden, in the ancient parish of Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Akroydon
Hamlet
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The Akroydon model housing scheme is a Victorian-era model village at Boothtown, Halifax, in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England.
Boothtown
Suburb
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Boothtown is a suburb of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, which falls within Town Ward, one of the 17 wards of Calderdale. Its history was dominated by the mills of the textile industry.
Ovenden
- Type: Suburb with 12,400 residents
- Description: village in West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Calderdale, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.74061° or 53° 44′ 26″ northLongitude
-1.88077° or 1° 52′ 51″ westPopulation
12,400Elevation
686 feet (209 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB OVFOpen location code
9C5WP4R9+6MOpenStreetMap ID
node 59005699OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Ovenden” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوفندن”
- Dutch: “Ovenden”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوفندن”
- French: “Ovenden”
- Irish: “Ovenden”
- Polish: “Ovenden”
- Swedish: “Ovenden”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ovenden”. Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.