23 Mar
Hardwood doors
London - W9
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Need broken front door replaced or repaired
Bedfont
Bedfont is a district in the London Borough of Hounslow in West London. It's 21 km west-southwest of Charing Cross and 2 miles from Heathrow Airport. It includes the area that is informally referred to as North Feltham and the neighbourhood of Hatton.
Bedfont is referred to within the Domesday Book as ‘Bedefunde’, which is believed to result from the Anglo-Saxon word ‘Bedfunta’, which means ‘bed’s spring’. It states that the manors of Bedfont, Hatton and Stanmore had been all held by William Fitz Other. Just before Heathrow’s Terminal 5 was constructed, just a couple of miles north of Bedfont, archaeologists found Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman artefacts, suggesting that people were residing in and around Bedfont in these eras.
The population of Bedfont stood at 12,701 at the 2011 census. The amount of inhabitants began to rise when Heathrow Airport was opened in 1946. This brought on growing demand for neighbourhood housing, especially as the village of Heathrow was lost as well as some 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 fifteenth century. Fawns Manor is on the south side of the Green and dates back to the 16th century, now belonging to the British Airways Housing Association.
