Hatton, London
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| Hatton | |
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| Location | |
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| OS grid reference: | TQ095755 |
| Latitude: | 51.467814° |
| Longitude: | -0.422675° |
| Administration | |
| London borough: | Hounslow |
| County level: | Greater London |
| Region: | London |
| Constituent country: | England |
| Sovereign state: | United Kingdom |
| Other | |
| Ceremonial county: | Greater London |
| Historic county: | Middlesex |
| Services | |
| Police force: | Metropolitan Police |
| Fire brigade: | London Fire Brigade |
| Ambulance service: | London Ambulance |
| Post office and telephone | |
| Post town: | FELTHAM |
| Postal district: | TW14 |
| Dialling code: | 020 |
| Politics | |
| UK Parliament: | Feltham and Heston |
| London Assembly: | South West |
| European Parliament: | London |
| London | List of places in London | |
Hatton is a place in the London Borough of Hounslow. It is a hamlet bordered by the town of Feltham to the South, the village of Bedfont to the West and Heathrow Airport to the North. It also forms a boundary with the London Borough of Hillingdon straddling the A30 Great South West Road, though until 1994 this area including Hatton Cross tube station and Heathrow Airport fell within Hounslow's borough boundaries.
Hatton's main architectural features now are a collection of rather non-descript industrial buildings providing ancillary services to Heathrow Airport. However, there is a quaint and attractive pub "The Green Man" [Greene King brewers] which has a large garden and is very popular with families; it usually includes a 'bouncy castle' in the Summer.
Adjoining the Green Man is a charming field where horses, geese, cows and other livestock seem to co-exist quite happily with the noisy occupants of the skies overhead on the southern approach to Heathrow. Hounslow Urban Farm, the largest city farm in London, is nearby next to Hatton Cemetery and provides another popular attraction for families.
Hatton has no shops or post office, though there is a convenience store and newsagents within Hatton Cross station. This hardly seems to inconvenience residents though since there is a Tesco Extra hypermarket adjoining the urban farm. The hamlet no longer possesses a church, since the chapel building in Steam Farm Lane was converted to housing some years ago.
There is also a small housing development at Hatton Green though this road was until recently used as a "rat run" to the busy A30 and A312 trunk roads which both run through the area parallel to Hatton's local access roads. Parking in the area is now charged during daytime hours to discourage commuter workers at the airport from parking off-street.
Local legend has it that infamous highwayman Dick Turpin knew this area well and regularly travelled between its ale houses using secret tunnels. This rather romantic notion however is quashed by the fact that Turpin most likely never frequented the great Hounslow Heath of which Hatton once formed part. Stagecoaches however would once have traversed the area en route from London to the South West, a heritage remembered now by this being one of the depots of Ashford Luxury Coaches, whose "Windsorian" branding causes some amusement when coaches from Hatton are used to ferry minor royals to great state events such as the Golden Jubilee Celebrations in 2002.
The nearest tube station is Hatton Cross tube station. Many bus links also serve Hatton Cross as do some longer distance National Express services before calling at Heathrow Terminals 1,2 and 3 in the central area. During 2005 and 2006. a bus link will be serving Heathrow Terminal 4 from Hatton Cross while the London Underground station at Terminal 4 is closed for the construction of the Piccadilly line extension to the new Terminal 5.
Its name came from Anglo-Saxon Hǣþtūn = "heath farmstead".
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