Bedfont is a district in the London Borough of Hounslow in West London. It's 21 km west-southwest of Charing Cross and 2 miles from Heathrow Airport. It consists of the area which is informally called North Feltham plus the neighbourhood of Hatton.
Bedfont is identified inside the Domesday Book as ‘Bedefunde’, which is believed to derive 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. Just before Heathrow’s Terminal Five was constructed, just a couple of miles north of Bedfont, archaeologists found Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman artefacts, suggesting that people were residing in and around Bedfont during these eras.
The populace of Bedfont stood at 12,701 in the 2011 census. The amount of inhabitants began to rise when Heathrow Airport was opened in 1946. This triggered escalating demand for nearby housing, especially as the village of Heathrow was lost along 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 15th 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.
