Hatton, London

infobox UK place
country = England
region= London
official_name= Hatton
latitude= 51.4678
longitude= -0.4226
london_borough= Hounslow
post_town= FELTHAM
postcode_district = TW14
postcode_area= TW
dial_code= 020
os_grid_reference= TQ095755
constituency_westminster= Feltham and Heston

Hatton is a small settlement in the London Borough of Hounslow, on the southern perimeter of London Heathrow Airport and on the A30 road.

Etymology

Hatton's name comes from Anglo-Saxon "Hǣþtūn" = "heath farmstead".

Neighbours

It is bordered by Feltham to the south, Bedfont to the west and Heathrow Airport to the north. The A30 road forms the borough boundary with Hillingdon; a border established in 1994, before then land north of the road had been in Hounslow.Office of Public Sector Information - [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1993/Uksi_19931342_en_1.htm Heathrow Airport (County and London Borough Boundaries) Order 1993] ]

Features and facilities

Hatton's main architectural features are a collection of industrial buildings providing ancillary services to Heathrow Airport. However, there is a pub, "The Green Man", owned by the Greene King brewers. [Beer in the Evening - [http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/54/5422/Green_Man/Bedfont The Green Man] ] Adjoining the Green Man is a field where horses, geese, cows and other livestock live, despite the noisy occupants of the skies overhead on the southern approach to Heathrow. Hounslow Urban Farm [Hounslow London Borough Council - [http://www.hounslow.info/urbanfarm Hounslow Urban Farm] ] (next to Hatton Cemetery), the largest city farm in London.Fact|date=July 2007

Hatton has no shops or post office, though there is a convenience store and newsagents within Hatton Cross station. There is also a 24 hour Tesco supermarket adjoining the urban farm. The hamlet no longer possesses a church, since the chapel building in Steam Farm Lane was converted for office use in 2000. Most of the local housing is mainly semi-detached or maisonettes built between 1930s and the 1950s. Several older properties exist in Green Man Lane, including the old Manor house, now the headquarters to a car leasing company and two other 18th Century dwellings. The 17th Century blacksmiths has long since been converted into a family home and the stables converted to living space. The now disappeared Steam Farm was so named because it was the first in the area to possess a steam plough.

Transport

The nearest tube station is Hatton Cross tube station. The area is served by a number of London Buses routes, connecting Hatton to the airport, Hounslow, Northolt, Southall, Richmond and Staines. [Transport for London - [http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/pdf/hattoncross-2121.pdf Buses from Hatton Cross] ]

Stagecoaches would once have traversed the area en route from London to the south west, a heritage remembered now by this being the location of one of the depots of Ashford Luxury Coaches, whose "Windsorian" branded coaches are used to transport members of the British Royal Family.

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