Ranked shortlist · 10 of 595 hardware, home and garden shops
Best hardware, home and garden shops in Birmingham
The 10 most notable hardware, home and garden shops in Birmingham, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Screwfix Sutton Coldfield
Unit 16 Reddicap Trading Estate
listed by DAC and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.213, percentile 100 of 595
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2
TradePoint Birmingham
Castle Vale
listed by DAC and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.213, percentile 99.83 of 595
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3
Screwfix Aston
Units 3 & 4, Catherine Street
listed by DAC and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.213, percentile 99.66 of 595
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4
Screwfix Hamstead
Unit 5 Prime Park
listed by DAC and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.213, percentile 99.49 of 595
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5
Screwfix Kings Norton
37, Sovereign Road
listed by DAC and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.213, percentile 99.33 of 595
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6
Screwfix West Bromwich
Unit 3 10-14 Birmingham Road
listed by DAC and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.213, percentile 99.16 of 595
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7
Screwfix Erdington
633B Kingsbury Trading Estate
listed by DAC and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.213, percentile 98.99 of 595
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8
Screwfix Selly Oak
Unit 7 Birkdale Avenue
listed by DAC and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.213, percentile 98.82 of 595
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9
Screwfix Coleshill
Unit 38, Coleshill Industrial Estate
listed by DAC and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.213, percentile 98.65 of 595
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10
Screwfix Tyseley
Unit 9, Speedwell Industrial Estate
listed by DAC and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.213, percentile 98.48 of 595
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).