Bedfont is a district within the London Borough of Hounslow in West London. It's 21 km west-southwest of Charing Cross and two miles from Heathrow Airport. It consists of the area that is informally known as North Feltham and the neighbourhood of Hatton.
Bedfont is mentioned inside the Domesday Book as ‘Bedefunde’, which is thought to come 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 in these times.
The citizenry of Bedfont stood at 12,701 at the 2011 census. The number of inhabitants started to rise when Heathrow Airport was opened in 1946. This triggered increasing demand for nearby housing, especially 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 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.