East Bedfont, Middlesex

Historical 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.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for East Bedfont from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bedfont, East (St. Mary))

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Middlesex is online.

Maps

Online maps of East Bedfont are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Villages, Hamlets, &c