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 that is informally referred to as North Feltham along with the neighbourhood of Hatton.
Bedfont is identified in the Domesday Book as ‘Bedefunde’, which is thought to derive 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 Five was built, just a couple of miles north of Bedfont, archaeologists found Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman artefacts, suggesting that individuals were living in and around Bedfont during 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 growing demand for neighbourhood housing, specifically 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 back to the late fifteenth century. Fawns Manor is on the south side of the Green and dates back to the 16th century, now belonging to the British Airways Housing Association.