![]() ![]() The heir in that family, Hubert de Burgh ('Chief Justiciar and Earl of Kent') swapped Feltham and Kempton with Henry III for his manors of Aylsham in Norfolk and Westhall in Suffolk. Following Mortain's son's forfeit of lands (William's rebellion triggering the attainder), the land was granted to the Redvers/de Ripariis/Rivers family. A large area of ten cultivated ploughlands is recorded. The Domesday Book records 21 households and an annual value of six pounds sterling it was held as lord and tenant-in-chief by Robert, Count of Mortain. Feltham railway station is on the Waterloo to Reading line, between Twickenham and Staines-upon-Thames.įeltham formed an ancient parish in the Spelthorne hundred of Middlesex. Heathrow Airport is to the north west of the town and is a major centre of employment for local residents. Further redevelopment in the early 2000s created the current shopping centre, which opened in 2006. Most of the original High Street was demolished in the 1960s and 1970s. The economy of the town was largely agrarian until the early twentieth century, when it was transformed by the expansion of the London urban area. In 2011, the population of the combined census area of Feltham, Bedfont and Hanworth was 63,368. The parliamentary constituency of Feltham and Heston has been held by Labour Party MPs since 1992. Historically part of Middlesex, it became part of the London Borough of Hounslow in 1965. ![]()
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