Bearwood is the southern part of Smethwick, in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England.

Bearwood Hill was the original name of the High Street from Smethwick Council House to Windmill Lane.

The part of Bearwood to the west of Shireland Brook is included in Abbey Ward in Sandwell Metropolitan Borough.

The smaller part of Bearwood to the east of Shireland Brook is in the North West Edgbaston ward in Birmingham.

Bearwood, like many areas of the West Midlands conurbation, has a local sense of place, although it has become absorbed into Smethwick.

Historically, Bearwood extended as far north as Smethwick High Street by Victoria Park east of the Council House.

Shopping facilities along Bearwood Road include an indoor market, an Aldi supermarket, bakeries and pharmacies.

If the plans for the West Midlands Metro extension along the Hagley Road are realised, Bearwood will also have a tram stop.

[3] This development ignored the county boundaries, and covered the Staffordshire central section along Bearwood Road, and spread into Warwickshire (eastwards), a discontiguous part of Shropshire (north-westwards) and Worcestershire (south-westwards).

Built in 1907 for the Co-operative Society, this imposing building with terracotta ornaments is now divided into a number of separate shops.

Both lost, but had they won, Bearwood would have been the first community in the country, possibly the world, to be represented at parliamentary level by two women.

The Edward Cheshire Nurses Home is near the most northerly point of the old Bearwood Ward in the time of the old Smethwick Town Council.

Although most of the company's innovative buses were built at its Carlyle Road workshops in nearby Edgbaston, they were all registered at Bearwood and as such carried the Smethwick 'HA' prefix on their number plates.

Warley Woods is grade II listed on the English Heritage Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

[16] Every year Warley Woods hosts a music festival entitled Picnic In The Park - to promote local bands & artists and to raise funds to maintain the parkland.

Bearwood has a range of local restaurants, including The King's Head, The Bear, Johnathan's in the Park, Mt Nemrut, (Turkish), A La Mexicana, Purnima (formerly Teknaf Cuisine), Haweli (Indian), Vaz (Portuguese), The Why Not Cafe, The Edge (Bus Station) Mi Tierra (South American) and The Old Dresser.

Local pub The Bear Tavern (The Bear Hotel) hosted comedy nights in the 1980s hosted by local comedian Frank Skinner (then performing as Chris Collins) and many television comedians appeared there, including Sean Hughes, Ed Byrne and some of the cast of The Fast Show.

It now stages a monthly clubnight, Club Mojo, and hosts an annual charity Music festival entitled Bearwoodstock.

Keith Law, member of the bands Velvett Fogg and Jardine, lived in Park Road, Bearwood, in the mid-1980s.

Other musical claims to fame include the now defunct "Little Nibble" cafe getting a mention on Dexy's Midnight Runners "Don't Stand Me Down" album and local-ish band The Twang rehearsing at the Sandwell Snooker Centre in the town.

There are many local musicians in the area and until recently there were regular acoustic performances at Atticus Bar, which closed its doors in November 2008.

Until his death in 2012 saxophonist Andy Hamilton performed weekly gigs along with his sons and Blue Notes band at the Corks Club on Bearwood High Street.

Since 2015 a theatre group, called The Bearwood Players, was set up by a local resident to raise money for charity.

In November 2015 their first production, a version of the traditional pantomime, Cinderella, was performed at the Bearwood Corks Club raising money for BBC Children in Need.