Description
Bedfont, East, a village and a parish in Middlesex. The village stands 1 mile NW of Feltham station on the L. & S.W.R., and 3 miles ENE of Staines, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Feltham. the parish includes also the hamlet of Hatton. Acreage, 1926; population, 1815. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London; net value, £262 with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. The church is very ancient, has a Saxon porch, and was restored in 1886. It is probably the oldest church in Middlesex; there are two wall paintings�one of the Crucifixion, the other of the Last Judgment, dating from the 12th century.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
