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Bedfont
Bedfont is a district in the London Borough of Hounslow in West London. It's 13 miles west-southwest of Charing Cross and 2 miles from Heathrow Airport. It consists of the area that is informally known as North Feltham and the neighbourhood of Hatton.
Bedfont is mentioned inside the Domesday Book as ‘Bedefunde’, which is believed to come from the Anglo-Saxon word ‘Bedfunta’, which means ‘bed’s spring’. It states that the manors of Bedfont, Hatton and Stanmore were all held by William Fitz Other. Before Heathrow’s Terminal 5 was built, just a few miles north of Bedfont, archaeologists discovered Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman artefacts, suggesting that people had been living in and around Bedfont during these times.
The populace of Bedfont stood at 12,701 at the 2011 census. The amount of inhabitants started to rise when Heathrow Airport was opened in 1946. This triggered escalating demand for nearby housing, particularly as the village of Heathrow was lost together with a part of the Hamlet of Hatton.
Bedfont has two surviving manor houses: Pates Manor, once owned by the Page family, and Fawns Manor. Pates Manor is behind the Church of St Mary the Virgin and dates from the late 15th century. Fawns Manor is on the south side of the Green and dates from the sixteenth century, now belonging to the British Airways Housing Association.