Bedfont is a district inside the London Borough of Hounslow in West London. It's 13 miles west-southwest of Charing Cross and 2 miles from Heathrow Airport. It includes the area which is informally referred to as North Feltham and also the neighbourhood of Hatton.
Bedfont is identified in the Domesday Book as ‘Bedefunde’, which is thought to derive 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. Before Heathrow’s Terminal Five was constructed, just a few miles north of Bedfont, archaeologists found Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman artefacts, suggesting that individuals had been residing in and around Bedfont during these periods.
The citizenry of Bedfont stood at 12,701 at the 2011 census. The amount of inhabitants began to increase when Heathrow Airport was opened in 1946. This caused escalating demand for neighbourhood housing, especially 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 back to the late fifteenth 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.