The designated area also contains a belt of parkland, formerly the grounds of Edgbaston Hall, that includes Edgbaston Park, Edgbaston Golf Course, Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Winterbourne Botanic Gardens, the Vale Student Village and over 100 acres of school and university playing fields.

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St Bartholomew's Church on Church Road in the Calthorpe area of Edgbaston was originally a mediaeval chapel attached to Edgbaston Hall; it was rebuilt in the 15th, 16th and 19th centuries.

The current church was designed by J.A.Chatwin in the Perpendicular Style; he rebuilt the chancel, nave, transepts and Lady Chapel in 1889; the south aisle had been rebuilt in 1856.

The only parts of the church that pre-date the Victorian rebuild are the north aisle which is early Tudor (circa 1490), the stone porch which is 17th century and the tower which is late Tudor (circa 1570); the battlements and pinnacles are Victorian.

St George's Church stands on a traffic island at the junction of Westbourne Road, Calthorpe Road and Highfield Road in the Chad Valley area of Edgbaston; it was built by JJ Scholes in the Early English Style  in 1838.

The church was originally a chapel of ease to St Bartholomew's and merely consisted of a nave and aisle; it was extended in 1856 when Charles Edge added a chancel and again in 1885, when JA Chatwin built a second chancel and nave; the first chancel then became the Lady Chapel and the first nave, the south aisle.

Chatwin's nave has a high ceiling with Early English decoration; other treasures include stained glass in the Lady Chapel by C.E.Kempe; choir stalls, a parclose screen (1885), organ case (1890) and Lady Chapel Screen (1906).