Bedfont is a district within the London Borough of Hounslow in West London. It is 21 km west-southwest of Charing Cross and 2 miles from Heathrow Airport. It includes the area that's informally called North Feltham plus the neighbourhood of Hatton.
Bedfont is referenced inside 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 had been 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 living in and around Bedfont in these eras.
The population 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 escalating demand for neighbourhood housing, especially as the village of Heathrow was lost along 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 back to the late fifteenth century. Fawns Manor is on the south side of the Green and dates from the sixteenth century, now belonging to the British Airways Housing Association.