Shelfield is a small village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 to the north of Walsall

Walsall

Walsall is a large industrial town in the West Midlands of England. It is located northwest of Birmingham and east of Wolverhampton. Historically a part of Staffordshire, Walsall is a component area of the West Midlands conurbation and part of the Black Country.Walsall is the administrative...

 in the West Midlands conurbation

West Midlands conurbation

The West Midlands conurbation is the name given to the large conurbation that includes the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton and the large towns of Dudley, Walsall, West Bromwich, Solihull, Stourbridge, Halesowen in the English West Midlands....

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The name Shelfield derives from the Anglo Saxon Skelfeld for sloping ground or field (J.T.Gould)

Education

Greenfield Primary is in Shelfield, with 292 pupils in January 07. High Heath in Shelfield is home to the Shelfield Community Academy, which went through a 6 million pound refurbishment in 2002. It has recently been turned into an Academy funded by the Ormiston Trust. Shelfield Community Academy
Shelfield is also home to St Francis, Catholic Primary School which is located adjacent to the Catholic Chapel.