In 1086 Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Arundel, held 1 hides in Hatton, which in the reign of King Edward the Confessor had been held by two sokemen, vassals of Albert of Lorraine. This land belonged to the earl's manor of Colham, in which it probably became merged. A second entry in the Domesday Survey relates to a still smaller estate in Hatton, which was held by Walter Fitz Other, and which had been held formerly by two vassals of Azor. It is probable that this land became merged in the Windsor Manor of East Bedfont, and was possibly granted to Hounslow Priory with the rest of that property. The priory certainly held land in Hatton in 1382, and in 1599 it was granted, as land formerly belonging to Hounslow, to Sir Michael Stanhope, and from that time descended with the manor of East Bedfont.
Edward III of England seems to have built a house at Hatton, which was known as Hatton Grange. Richard II held this of the priory of Hounslow at a yearly rent of 50 shillings (£). In 1911, the hamlet of Hatton lay in the level country to the east of
Staines upon Thames 2 miles to the northeast of East Bedfont. Its street formed a convergence of byways radiating from the south toward the Staines Road from the other side towards the parallel Bath Road, and for this reason it is said to have been a favourite haunt (ground) of
highwaymen. It was always
buffered, east, by the gorse, dry grass, brambles and silver birches of Hounslow Heath, and both main roads were easily accessible from the old inn,
The Green Man where the hiding-hole behind the chimney is evident. Two fairs, held respectively about 7 May at Bedford and 14 June at Hatton, were abolished by the Home Secretary on the representation (petitioning) of the Justices of the Peace (local magistrates) in April 1881. It does not appear how long it had been the custom to hold them. Built around 1840. Now car parks in line with the north runway. • Hatton Road Farm: west of Hatton Road, roughly in an
equilateral triangle with The Cedars and Hatton Gore. • Hatton Gore: a large house, east side, its site is part of the truck depot west of the perimeter road's Enfield Road Roundabout. It had a large garden and was not square to the road. It incorporated much
york stone of an old guise of the
Bank of England. The famous plant collector
Frank Kingdon-Ward moved to Hatton Gore in 1923. He built its garden's grand
rockery looking like a bend in a river ravine in the Himalayas. Built around 1840. • The Common: a farm, west side • The Dog and Partridge:
pub, west side • The
Cyclist's Rest: east side, a snack shop; it used to be a beerhouse The Magpies • Various smaller houses and cottages were between these houses. These buildings were demolished in or before 1949. Hatton Road survives as a north end stump (Hatton Road North), then is
airside: where remnant traces are surface tarmac and wide
cropmark on grass east of the north runway, unnamed gaps between aircraft-maintenance/service buildings, the south part of Eastchurch Road, and a southern stump.
South of the Great South West Road • Temple Hatton, a country house in grounds east of Hatton Farm in the bend of Fagg's Road.
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet owned and occupied it followed by his widow. In 1899 it was sold to a
Roman Catholic order and became an orphanage called St. Anthony's Home. In 1958 it was sold due to increasing
aircraft noise. Its site is now occupied by airport-related premises (St. Anthony's Way and St. Teresa's Road). • Steam Farm, so named because it was the first in the area to have a steam-powered plough. The sites of it and Hatton House and other buildings in the island between Fagg's Road and Dick Turpin Way and
Great South West Road are now occupied by a
Gate Gourmet works. • Hatton Farm: had several buildings and a Mission Hall, between Great South West Road and Fagg's Road and the northwest edge of what used to be Temple Hatton. The current Google Earth view (as at April 2012) shows waste ground, the Mission Hall, and one derelict farm building with gaps in its roof. ==Transport==