Bedfont is a district inside the London Borough of Hounslow in West London. It is 13 miles west-southwest of Charing Cross and 2 miles from Heathrow Airport. It includes the area that's informally referred to as North Feltham and the neighbourhood of Hatton.
Bedfont is described in the Domesday Book as ‘Bedefunde’, which is believed to come 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 couple of miles north of Bedfont, archaeologists found Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman artefacts, suggesting that people had been living in and around Bedfont during these periods.
The citizenry of Bedfont stood at 12,701 in the 2011 census. The number of inhabitants began to rise when Heathrow Airport was opened in 1946. This triggered growing demand for nearby housing, specifically as the village of Heathrow was lost in addition to 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 sixteenth century, now belonging to the British Airways Housing Association.