13 Facts About Feltham

Feltham is a town in West London, England, 13 miles from Charing Cross.

Feltham formed an ancient parish in the Spelthorne hundred of Middlesex.

Feltham's son inherited Feltham manor, whose daughter by an empowering marriage to Admiral Vere of Hanworth in the same historic county of Middlesex led to its next owner having a very high title and degree of wealth: her son, Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans inherited the manor and a dukedom with considerable land from a cousin.

Finally in the early 20th century, until death, the land now considered Feltham was either already subdivided by developers and farmers or owned by senior judge Ernest Pollock turned politician, Viscount Hanworth.

Feltham saw the very large Hanworth manor, which covered most of Hanworth parish divided up due to taxation; it became well-placed to cater to the demand for new homes with new intra-Borough transport links.

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Feltham's greenhouses have since disappeared, but many of the fields still remain.

Main economic activity of the Feltham area was market gardening until well into the twentieth century.

Feltham has been associated with land and air transport for more than a century.

In what is the Leisure West entertainment complex of various buildings including cinema, bowling alley and restaurants, the Feltham tramcar was once manufactured and ran along the tracks of many municipal operators, though never in Feltham itself.

Feltham was in the early and mid 20th century home to Britain's second largest railway marshalling yard which was geared towards freight, and was a target for German air force bombs in World War II.

The latter is notable in having a telecommunications port in Feltham which provides transmission and distribution facilities for TV companies including Sky and Channel 5.

Feltham has in its land use considerably more open spaces than average in London; bounding it to the east is a natural small river, the Crane separating off the once vast Hounslow Heath to the east, stretching from north by Harlington south to Hampton, London until the early 20th century.

The parish church of St Dunstan and the Parish of Feltham have joined with two other churches to create a larger Ecumenical Parish of Feltham founded in the late 1970s.