Bedfont is a district in the London Borough of Hounslow in West London. It is 21 km west-southwest of Charing Cross and two miles from Heathrow Airport. It includes the area which is informally called North Feltham plus the neighbourhood of Hatton.
Bedfont is identified within the Domesday Book as ‘Bedefunde’, which is thought to result 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. Just before Heathrow’s Terminal 5 was constructed, just a couple of miles north of Bedfont, archaeologists discovered Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman artefacts, suggesting that people were living in and around Bedfont over these times.
The citizenry of Bedfont stood at 12,701 at the 2011 census. The number of inhabitants began to rise when Heathrow Airport was opened in 1946. This brought on escalating demand for nearby housing, specifically as the village of Heathrow was lost along 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 fifteenth century. Fawns Manor is on the south side of the Green and dates back to the sixteenth century, now belonging to the British Airways Housing Association.