Shard End borders Castle Bromwich to the north and Kingshurst to the east which are situated in the northern part of the neighbouring Metropolitan Borough of Solihull.

The Birmingham and District Association of Boy Scouts were able to buy a patch of land at a bargain price and set up a permanent camp there.

Yorkswood takes its name from the nearby Yorks Wood, an eleven hectare forest dating back hundreds of years.

In the inter war years the Midland Sand and Gravel Company operated a mine on what is now the Norman Chamberlain Playing Fields, off Packington Avenue.

The old gravel pit was allowed to fill with water from a natural spring to form Shard End Lake and has become a leisure facility.

[3] Shard End Library opened in 1967 and was the first in Birmingham to use plastic membership cards instead of the traditional cardboard tickets.

After the estate of the 1940s had been constructed, a large swathe of green land remained along the River Cole valley, this was called 'The cow fields' and in the early 1950s local people - particularly at the 'Bailey bridge' end of Shard End Crescent - would have cows grazing on the fields there.

Since the building of this development, and a sharp decline in employment levels during the 1980s, Shard End has seen a marked increase in the problems typical of urban areas in large cities.

Shard End has its own community Centre on Packington Avenue, on the opposite side of the road to the Police Station.

The development includes a large onsite car park with local bus services running through the area.

75.6% of Shard End voters chose to Leave during the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.

The area is served by Lea Hall railway station on the Coventry to Birmingham New Street line with occasional services to Walsall and Rugeley Trent Valley.

[5] The lyrics to the ELO song "All Over the World" mention Shard End along with cities like London, Paris, Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo.