Ovenden is a village in West Yorkshire, England, next to Boothtown and Illingworth about a mile from Halifax town centre.

[1] 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 are some affluent Victorian properties and streets mixed in with the social modern housing.

[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.