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- Ensure that your installer uses non-combustible mounting systems and frames.
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- Keep your solar panel system regularly maintained with proper testing and servicing carried out as recommended by your installer.
- If something doesn’t look right to you, get in touch with your installer and ask – they should be more than happy to help.
Bedfont
Bedfont is a district in the London Borough of Hounslow in West London. It's 13 miles west-southwest of Charing Cross and two miles from Heathrow Airport. It contains the area that is informally known as North Feltham as well as the neighbourhood of Hatton.
Bedfont is referred to in 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. Before Heathrow’s Terminal 5 was built, just a few miles north of Bedfont, archaeologists found Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman artefacts, suggesting that individuals were living in and around Bedfont during these times.
The citizenry of Bedfont stood at 12,701 at the 2011 census. The amount of inhabitants began to rise when Heathrow Airport was opened in 1946. This caused rising demand for nearby housing, particularly as the village of Heathrow was lost and also 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 around the south side of the Green and dates back to the 16th century, now belonging to the British Airways Housing Association.
