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Bedfont
Bedfont is a district within 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 called North Feltham as well as the neighbourhood of Hatton.
Bedfont is referenced within 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 built, just a few miles north of Bedfont, archaeologists discovered Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman artefacts, suggesting that individuals were living in and around Bedfont over these times.
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 rising demand for nearby housing, particularly as the village of Heathrow was lost together with 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 15th century. Fawns Manor is around the south side of the Green and dates from the 16th century, now belonging to the British Airways Housing Association.