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 which is informally called North Feltham and also the neighbourhood of Hatton.
Bedfont is identified within the Domesday Book as ‘Bedefunde’, which is thought to originate 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 Five was constructed, just a couple of miles north of Bedfont, archaeologists discovered Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman artefacts, suggesting that people had been residing in and around Bedfont in these periods.
The citizenry of Bedfont stood at 12,701 at the 2011 census. The amount of inhabitants started to increase when Heathrow Airport was opened in 1946. This triggered growing demand for local housing, especially as the village of Heathrow was lost together with 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 15th 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.