BRADSHAW is an ecclesiastical parish 3 miles north from Halifax, formed from the parish of Halifax in 1843, comprising Holdsworth. Causeway Foot and Ogden, and is in the wapentake of Morley, Halifax union and county court district, rural deanery of Halifax, Craven archdeaconry, diocese of Ripon and province of York. St. John’s church, a stone building in the Pointed style, with chancel, nave, tower and 1 bell, was consecrated in 1837. The register dates from the year 1839. The living is a vicarage, worth £150 yearly, in the gift of the vicar of Halifax and held by the Rev. Joseph Hall B.A. of London University. The principal landowners are the trustees of the Savile estates-Luke Henry Dean esq. W. Foster esq. and G. Wileock esq. Here are a worsted mill and pottery, also coal pits. The population in 1871 was 1,942; the area is 2,491 acres.

Holdsworth. 2 ½ miles north from Halifax, Causeway Foot 2 ¾ miles north from Halifax, and Ogden 3 miles north-north-east from Halifax, are villages in Bradshaw parish. There are chapels for Primitive Methodists at Bradshaw and Ogden.

Ovenden Board school, E. B. Turner, master; Miss E. Coates, mistress: Miss J. Mauer, infants’ mistress.