Editing Feltham

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| country                  = England
| type                     = [[Town]]
| region                   = London
| shire_county             = [[Greater London]]
| official_name            = Feltham
| population               = 63,368
| population_ref           = [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 Census]]<ref>Feltham is made up of 5 wards in the London Borough of Hounslow: Bedfont, Feltham North, Feltham West, Hanworth, and Hanworth Park. {{cite web|url=http://data.london.gov.uk/2011-census-ward-pop |title=2011 Census Ward Population Estimates &#124; London DataStore |access-date=9 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222202755/http://data.london.gov.uk/2011-census-ward-pop |archive-date=22 February 2014 |df=dmy }}</ref>
| area_total_km2           = 6.56
| london_borough             = Hounslow
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| os_grid_reference        = TQ105735
| post_town                = FELTHAM
| postcode_area            = TW
| postcode_district        = TW13, TW14
| dial_code                = 020
| constituency_westminster = [[Feltham and Heston (UK Parliament constituency)|Feltham and Heston]]
| static_image_name        = Feltham high street 2.jpg
| static_image_caption     = High Street, Feltham town centre
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'''Feltham''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|f|ɛ|l|t|əm}}) is a town in [[West London]], England, {{convert|13|mi|km}} from [[Charing Cross]]. Historically part of [[Middlesex]], it became part of the [[London Borough of Hounslow]] in 1965. The parliamentary constituency of [[Feltham and Heston (UK Parliament constituency)|Feltham and Heston]] has been held by [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] MPs since 1992. In 2011, the population of the combined census area of Feltham, [[Bedfont]] and [[Hanworth]] was 63,368.

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. Most of the original High Street was demolished in the 1960s and 1970s. Further redevelopment in the early 2000s created the current shopping centre, which opened in 2006.

[[London Heathrow Airport|Heathrow Airport]] is to the north west of the town and is a major centre of employment for local residents. [[Feltham railway station]] is on the [[Waterloo to Reading line]], between [[Twickenham]] and [[Staines-upon-Thames]].

==History==
Feltham formed an ancient parish in the [[Spelthorne (hundred)|Spelthorne]] hundred of [[Middlesex]].<ref name=parish>Vision of Britain – Feltham parish [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10165039 history] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222222627/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10165039 |date=22 December 2007 }} ([http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10165039&c_id=10001043 historic map] )</ref> 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]]. A large area of ten cultivated ploughlands is recorded.<ref>[http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TQ1073/feltham/ Domesday map]</ref> Following Mortain's son's forfeit of lands (William's rebellion triggering the [[attainder]]), the land was granted to the [[Rivers baronets|Redvers/de Ripariis/Rivers]] family. The heir in that family, [[Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent|Hubert de Burgh ('Chief Justiciar and Earl of Kent')]] swapped Feltham and [[Kempton Park, Surrey|Kempton]] with [[Henry III of England|Henry III]] for his manors of [[Aylsham]] in Norfolk and [[Westhall]] in Suffolk.<ref name=Page/> In 1440 [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]] granted numerous privileges to his joint royal custodian of the two manors, including a daily income of up to 12 [[shilling]]s and that "corn, hay, horse and carriages and other goods and chattels should not be seized for the king's use".<ref name=Page/>

While under total royal control following [[Henry VIII]]'s full [[annexation]] of the manor into the [[honour (feudal barony)|Honour of Hampton Court]], a lease of all of its [[manor court]] rights and "franchises, privileges, emoluments, and hereditaments" was granted under his daughter [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]] to the Killigrew family of Kempton Park, for 80 years.<ref name=Page/>

However the large manor itself passed 40 years later in 1631 by grant to [[Francis Cottington, 1st Baron Cottington|Francis (Lord) Cottington]], established at his new [[Hanworth Park]], who had become Lord Treasurer, ambassador and leader of the pro-Spanish, pro-Roman Catholic faction in the court of [[Charles I of England|Charles I]].<ref name=Page/> His nephew sold it, after a major fire and a very temporary loss caused by John Bradshaw, who arranged the King's execution, under the [[Commonwealth of England]], to Sir Thomas Chambers. His son inherited Feltham manor, whose daughter by an empowering marriage to [[Baron Vere|Admiral Vere (created Lord Vere)]] of Hanworth in the same historic county of [[Middlesex]] (created for him 1750) 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. The Duke was a British landowner and a collector of antiquities and works of art, seated occasionally at Hanworth, who funded an excavation in Italy which produced many sculpture [[Cultural artifact|artifact]]s. Parting with much of the Duke's surfeit of large country houses, minor plot sales dividing the two ancient manors took place in the 19th century. 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, (1st) [[Viscount Hanworth]]. He 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.

In this period in 1784 [[William Roy|General William Roy]] set out the baseline of what would become the [[Ordnance Survey]] across Hounslow Heath, passing through Feltham.<ref>Harley (1969)</ref> General Roy is commemorated by a local pub. The [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|MOD]] Defence Geographic Centre maintains a base in Feltham, announced for disposal in the 2015–2020 Parliament.<ref>{{cite web | title = Defence Minister Mark Lancaster announces release of MOD sites for development | date = 18 January 2016 | publisher = [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]] | url = https://www.gov.uk/government/news/defence-minister-mark-lancaster-announces-release-of-mod-sites-for-development }}</ref>

In 1831, Feltham occupied an area of {{convert|2620|acre|km2|0}}, stretching into [[Hounslow Heath]] and had a population of 924.<ref name=pop>Vision of Britain – Feltham parish [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_AREA_A&u_id=10165039&c_id=10001043&add=Y area] and [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TPop&u_id=10165039&c_id=10001043&add=N population]</ref> The [[Waterloo to Reading Line]] established a station here from its construction in 1848. From 1894 to 1904 the Felham parish was included in the [[Staines Rural District]].<ref name=parish/> In 1901 the parish had a population of 4,534<ref name=pop/> and accordingly in 1904 it was split from the rural district to form the [[Feltham Urban District]].<ref name=ud>Vision of Britain – [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10086991 Feltham UD] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930235126/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10086991 |date=30 September 2007 }}</ref> In 1932 the parishes of Hanworth and East Bedfont were also transferred from the Staines district to Feltham Urban District.
[[Image:FREDDIE MERCURY - 22 Gladstone Avenue Feltham London TW14 9LL.jpg|thumb|upright|Former home of [[Freddie Mercury]]. A [[blue plaque]] commemorates his time here.]]

From the 1860s until late 1920s Feltham was also home to the "Cabbage King", A.W. Smith.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Lucas |first=Alfred E. |title=The great A.W. Smith |date=2000 |publisher=Gables Publishing in association with Feltham Notes History Group |others=Calder, R. J., Feltham Notes History Group. |isbn=0953816508 |location=Ashford |oclc=59576929}}</ref> Smith was considered one of the most successful market gardeners of the time, and his "Glass City" of greenhouses along Feltham's High street was unmatched.<ref name=":0" /> Smith also lived in the Feltham House (now in the middle of MOD site in the town) for a time. His greenhouses have since disappeared, but many of the fields still remain.

Feltham Urban District was disbanded in 1965 along with the [[Middlesex County Council]] following the [[London Government Act 1963]], which transferred administrative control over parts of Middlesex to the new county of [[Greater London]].

Although opened in 1910, major expansion took place in a similar period, at the extreme south-west of the [[post town]], at [[Feltham Young Offenders' Institution]] or HM Prison Feltham, which is a major such institution providing a range of employments and rehabilitation schemes for young people.<ref name=offend>politics.co.uk – [http://www.politics.co.uk/issuebrief/public-services/prisons/young-offenders-institutions/young-offender-institutions-$366692.htm politics.co.uk] – What is a Young Offender Institution? {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222152213/http://www.politics.co.uk/issuebrief/public-services/prisons/young-offenders-institutions/young-offender-institutions-$366692.htm |date=22 December 2007 }}</ref> It has a border with [[Ashford, Surrey|Ashford]] and the neighbouring village of [[East Bedfont]].

Famous former resident [[Freddie Mercury]] (born Farokh Bulsara in Zanzibar, 1946–1991) of [[Rock music|rock]] band [[Queen (band)|Queen]] was commemorated by a permanent, Hollywood-style granite star in Feltham's town-centre piazza, unveiled on 24 November 2009 (the eighteenth anniversary of Mercury's death) by [[Queen (band)|Queen]] guitarist [[Brian May]], alongside Freddie's mother, Jer Bulsara, and his sister. In 2011, owing to neglect and weather damage, Hounslow Council removed the memorial, resolving to substitute a smaller one elsewhere.

===Recent developments===
[[File:Feltham, The Centre 1.jpg|thumb|right|The centre, Feltham]]
Feltham's town centre developed in the period 1860–2010 when the focus of the village moved north from by St Dunstan's Church after the coming of the railway in 1848. For most of the twentieth century, it had a traditional-looking High Street, including more [[mock tudor]] shop fronts, and a large medieval [[manor house]] which was controversially demolished in the mid-1960s to make way for a car dealership and petrol station. This has since been demolished but replaced with a hardware, carpets and supermarket site ''Manor Park''.

Most of the original [[High Street]] shops were also demolished in the mid-1960s through to the early 1970s. Victorian and Edwardian tall-storey terraced, semi-detached and detached homes are found on Hanworth Road and adjoining roads, and in the small [[conservation area]] at Feltham Pond on the High Street. Many old cottages and workman's terraces were demolished alongside the railway line to make way for [[brutalism|brutalist]] [[high rise]] blocks of housing, of originally purely [[social housing]] to house the homeless and overcrowded people in the borough, such as Belvedere House, Hunter House and Home Court, demolished in the 2000s and replaced with mixed-ownership apartments in a more ornate style in a [[nucleated village|cluster]], incorporating designer balconies and architectural demonstrations of free-form structure such as propped overhangs and an unobtrusive at street-level, multi-faceted [[floor plan]].{{cn|date=May 2024}}

The current shopping hub,<ref name=future/> The centre, Feltham (also known as the Longford Centre, if only by the original developers and some retail tenants), opened in 2006. It retained and refurbished many of the shop units built in the 1960s to replace the demolished buildings, along the High Street frontage, but replaced most of the others with new, larger units. Also added as part of the re-development was a Travelodge hotel, 800 homes, a new and larger library, and a medical centre. The anchor (and largest) store in the centre is an [[Asda]] hypermarket, coupled with fashion chains, small restaurants, a [[public house]] and cafés. Near to the retail park mentioned is a [[Tesco]] superstore and numerous grocery outlets are dotted along the area's High Street. Added to this are regular local trades/services in small clusters in the main named neighbourhoods of North Feltham and Lower Feltham.<ref name=future/> Prior to this large-scale redevelopment, the rock band Oasis filmed the video for their song [[Stand by Me (Oasis song)|''Stand by Me'']] in The Centre in 1997. Rap group [[So Solid Crew]] also filmed the music video for their 2003 single, ''Broke Silence'', on Highfield Estate (nearby The {{not a typo|Centre}}), before its eventual regeneration.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

In retail, the closest destination with more than 100 outlets is [[Hounslow]], centred less than {{convert|2|mi}} to the north-east, followed by [[Kingston upon Thames|Kingston]] and [[Staines upon Thames|Staines]]. Late 2017 saw the approval of the "Feltham Masterplan" by Hounslow council which will see the transformation of Feltham for the next 15 years.{{cn|date=June 2024}}

In June 2024 a [[Surrey Police]] officer, who repeatedly drove his police car into a 10-month-old breeding [[heifer (cow)|heifer]], called Beau Lucy, in Raleigh Road, was removed from frontline duties.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vernon |first=Hayden |date=2024-06-16 |title=Surrey police officer who rammed cow removed from frontline duties |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/16/surrey-police-officer-who-rammed-cow-should-be-fired-says-owners-partner |access-date=2024-06-28 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

==Geography==
{{See also|Geology of London}}
Feltham is centred {{convert|13.5|mi|km}} [[boxing the compass|west south west]] of central [[London]] at [[Charing Cross]] and centred {{convert|2.5|mi|km}} from the centre of [[Heathrow Airport]].<ref name=map>Hounslow London Borough Council – [http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/text/hounslow_borough_map.pdf Borough map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070628131606/http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/text/hounslow_borough_map.pdf |date=28 June 2007 }}</ref>

The neighbouring settlements are [[Hounslow]], [[Ashford, Surrey|Ashford]], [[East Bedfont]] (including Hatton), [[Sunbury-on-Thames|Sunbury Common]], [[Cranford, London|Cranford]] and [[Hanworth]].<ref name=map/>

==Governance==
[[File:Feltham Magistrates' Court - geograph.org.uk - 1161244.jpg|thumb|left|Feltham Magistrates' Court]]

There is no specific [[town council]] for Feltham; instead a Bedfont, Feltham, Hanworth area forum of councillors considers issues specific to the area on the [[London Borough of Hounslow]]'s council.<ref name=future>[http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/news_mod_home/news_mod_year/news_mod_month/news_mod_show?year1=2006&month1=7&NewsID=21550 "New future for Feltham – About Feltham"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224083353/http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/news_mod_home/news_mod_year/news_mod_month/news_mod_show?year1=2006&month1=7&NewsID=21550 |date=24 December 2007 }} Hounslow London Borough Council. 14 July 2006.</ref><ref>Vision of Britain – [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10026520&c_id=10001043 Hounslow UD] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930235757/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10026520&c_id=10001043 |date=30 September 2007 }}</ref>

The town forms part of [[Feltham and Heston (UK Parliament constituency)|Feltham and Heston]] parliamentary constituency (and the [[South West (London Assembly constituency)|South West]] [[London Assembly]] constituency which elects the geographic element of members who advise, steer, assist and scrutinise the [[Mayor of London]] who is directly responsible for only certain designated policy areas such as Transport for London).<ref>Hounslow London Borough Council – [http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/index/council_and_democracy/democracy_and_elections/gla_member.htm GLA Member] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070417155544/http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/index/council_and_democracy/democracy_and_elections/gla_member.htm |date=17 April 2007 }}</ref> There are two local government wards falling entirely within Feltham – Feltham North and Feltham West – though locals often consider sections of the Hanworth Park and Bedfont wards as forming part of Feltham.<ref>Hounslow London Borough Council – [https://archive.today/20110814121544/http://213.210.33.3/mgMemberIndex.asp?FN=WARD&J=1 Your Councillors by Ward]</ref> This area was represented in Parliament from 1992 to 2011 by [[Alan Keen]] ([[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]). After his death, Labour candidate [[Seema Malhotra]] won the by-election.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/dec/08/feltham-heston-byelection-labour-heathrow The Guardian ''Feltham and Heston byelection – it's Labour's to lose Labour has a reported 22-point lead in the west London seat dominated by ups and down''] ''[[The Guardian]]'' 8 December 2011</ref>

Feltham Magistrates' Court was built in 1902 as a town hall but converted to a magistrates' court in 1906.<ref>{{cite PastScape |mnumber=1074157 |mname=FELTHAM MAGISTRATES COURT |access-date=27 April 2014}}</ref> The court closed in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2018-05-09/142383|title=Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament|website=questions-statements.parliament.uk}}</ref>

[[File:Recovery Stores at a Raoc Depot, Feltham Art.IWMARTLD5402.jpg|thumb|''Recovery Stores at a RAOC Depot, Feltham'' by [[Karl Hagedorn (1889–1969)|Karl Hagedorn]], 1945]]
Immediately adjacent to the town centre is [[MoD Feltham]], a secure {{convert|30|acre|adj=on}} site belonging to the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]].<ref name="PlanBrief2017">{{cite web |title=Planning Brief for the Feltham Ministry of Defence Site |url=https://democraticservices.hounslow.gov.uk/documents/s134793/REG521%20-%20Appendix%201%20-%20planning%20brief%20for%20MOD%20Feltham%20SMD.pdf |publisher=London Borough of Hounslow |access-date=4 August 2019}}</ref>

==Economy==
[[File:Fetham rooftop view.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Skyline of West Feltham and Bedfont Lakes looking north-west.]]
The main economic activity of the Feltham area was market gardening until well into the twentieth century. A popular variety of pea known as the Feltham First is so-named for being first grown in the town. The market gardens were largely replaced with light industry, gravel and aggregate extraction, and new housing from the 1930s onwards.

Feltham has been associated with land and air transport for more than a century. In what is now 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. In the same area of the town, aircraft manufacture was an important industry, particularly in the war years. Feltham was in the early and mid 20th century home to Britain's second largest railway [[Feltham marshalling yard|marshalling yard]] which was geared towards freight, and was a target for German air force bombs in [[World War II]].

The motor car manufacturer [[Aston Martin]] had its main factory in Feltham between 1926 (when it bought the former Whitehead Aircraft factory) and 1963.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lagonda1949-1958.co.uk/TonyTocock/Tocock.html |title=Aston Martin and Lagonda Recollections |work=lagonda1949-1958.co.uk |access-date=30 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120110174935/http://www.lagonda1949-1958.co.uk/TonyTocock/Tocock.html |archive-date=10 January 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref> The site is now occupied by part of Leisure West.

A former company based in Feltham from 1911 until the closure of its factory in the 1980s was [[Minimax Limited]], manufacturers of [[fire extinguishers]].

The largest local employer is [[Heathrow Airport]]. Associated businesses conglomerate in the business parks of the TW14 (Bedfont and Feltham North) part of the post town particularly in logistics and couriers who store and carry the air freight of much of Britain.<ref>Freight warehouses or forwarding major units in TW14 include Geodis, Expeditors and Associated Freight</ref>

However, accessibility of parts of Central London and a good local road network have also made Feltham a base for a number of high-tech companies, including [[DHL]] and [[Arqiva]]. The latter is notable in having a [[telecommunications port]] (teleport) in Feltham which provides transmission and distribution facilities for TV companies including [[Sky UK|Sky]] and [[Channel 5 (UK)|Channel 5]].

==Leisure==
[[File:Frozen pond, Feltham Green - geograph.org.uk - 96599.jpg|thumb|right|Frozen pond on Feltham Green]]

Feltham has in its land use considerably more open spaces than average in (Greater) London;<ref name=future/> bounding it to the east is a natural small river, the [[River Crane, London|Crane]] separating off the once vast [[Hounslow Heath]] to the east, stretching from north by [[Harlington, London|Harlington]] south to [[Hampton, London]] until the early 20th century. To other sides it includes a country park formed from converted gravel pits (Bedfont Lakes) with rolling adjacent meadows open to walkers by its railway and (within the [[post town]]) one of Greater London's first airfields, [[London Air Park]] at [[Hanworth]], which has well-trimmed grass, is surrounded by trees and is a large and sports-oriented public open space.

Public venues include Feltham Assembly Hall, opened in 1965 in Feltham Park, community rooms in the new library, as well as several residents association halls and clubs. Since the controversial removal in 2008 of the Feltham Community Association from the Feltham People's Centre (the former Feltham Hotel), the town has lacked a dedicated community centre and after protests from the community a new one I now being built on Feltham Green with a planned opening date of spring 2025

[[Springwest Academy]] (formerly Feltham Comprehensive School) and [[Rivers Academy West London]] (known as Longford School until 2011) both have excellent sports facilities. These supplement the Hanworth Air Park Leisure Centre and Library, operated by Fusion Leisure on behalf of Hounslow Council. Leisure West (a privately developed and managed complex of entertainment and dining facilities including a multiplex cinema, tenpin bowling alley, bingo club and restaurants) opened on the former industrial sites around Browell's Lane in the mid-1990s.
Feltham has a [[Non-League football]] club [[Bedfont & Feltham F.C.]] who play at the Orchard in East Bedfont. Bedfont Recreation Ground hosts [[Brentford Women FC|Brentford Women]].

==Demography==
The 2011 ethnic groups in Feltham with a total population of 63,368 were:
*51.4% White British
*20.2% Asian
*10.1% Other White (not covering Irish or Traveller)
*9.6% Black

This is combined data for the Feltham North and West wards with Feltham North being slightly more ethnically diverse than Feltham West.

==Religion==
[[File:St Dunstan's Church, Feltham - geograph.org.uk - 96592.jpg|thumb|right|St Dunstan's Church]]
[[File:St Lawrence the Deacon Church front, Feltham.jpg|thumb|upright|Catholic Church of St Lawrence]]
The town remains among the largest ecclesiastical parishes of the [[Diocese of London]] within the [[Church of England]]. 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. This joins the church together in activities and church services with Southville Methodist Church and the United Free Church of Feltham.

On 24 June 1868, [[Joseph Leycester Lyne|Father Ignatius]] founded an [[Order of St. Benedict (Anglican)|Anglican Benedictine]] convent in the parish. Feltham Priory, or Feltham Nunnery, was dedicated to Saints [[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Mary]] and [[Scholastica]] (twin sister of [[Benedict of Nursia|St Benedict]]).<ref name=Page>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22203 |title=Spelthorne Hundred: Feltham |editor=William Page  |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2: General; Ashford, East Bedfont with Hatton, Feltham, Hampton with Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton |access-date=15 April 2011 }}</ref> It lasted five years before the nuns initiated a series of moves which would see them relocate to [[Curzon Park Abbey]] in Chester in 1988.

The tall spire fronting tower of an additional church first built 1880–1898, to St Catherine, opposite the railway station forms the façade of St Catherine's House, a London Borough of Hounslow Housing office and temporary housing accommodation.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1260937|desc=Tower and spire of former Church of St Catherine|grade=II|access-date=7 September 2013}}</ref>
As of August 2014, St Catherine's House is now closed because the council have moved out and relocated elsewhere.

The Roman Catholic church of [[Saint Lawrence]], with its attendant primary school, faces onto Feltham Green.<ref>{{cite web |title=Welcome to St Lawrence's Church |url=http://saintlawrences.org.uk |website=St Lawrence's Roman Catholic Church |access-date=4 October 2021}}</ref>

==Transport==
[[File:Feltham Marshalling Yard, with SR 4-8-0T shunting geograph-2638685-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg|thumb|right|[[Feltham marshalling yard]] (1918–1969) seen here in 1958.]]

===Tube===
Nearby [[Hatton Cross tube station|Hatton Cross]], which is on the Heathrow branch of the [[Piccadilly line]] provides a [[Central London]] and Heathrow rail option to Feltham, and is {{cvt|1.5|miles}} north of the town centre. Bus routes 90, 117, 235, 285, 490, H25 and H26 also run frequent services through the town, as well as bus route 116 through Feltham North.

===Railway===
The town is served by [[Feltham railway station]] on the [[Waterloo to Reading Line]],  Two branch line services operate on the line here, to [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]] and [[Weybridge]].

===Bus and coach services===
The town has [[London Buses]] services to [[Kingston upon Thames]], [[Richmond, London|Richmond]], [[Brentford]], [[London Heathrow Airport|Heathrow]], [[Staines-upon-Thames]], [[Northolt]], [[Isleworth]] and [[Sunbury on Thames]]. Intervening places such as [[Hayes, Hillingdon|Hayes]], Hounslow, [[Hampton, London|Hampton Court/Hampton]], [[Twickenham]] and Ashford are called at.<ref name=bus>Transport for London – [http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/pdf/feltham-2089.pdf Buses from Feltham ]</ref>

Long-distance express services are offered predominantly from various sides of Heathrow to places such as [[Slough]], [[Reading, Berkshire]] and [[Croydon]], the latter under the London Buses pricing and operational scheme.<ref name=bus/>

==Notable people==
* [[Vic Briggs]], guitarist with [[The Animals]], was born in Feltham<ref>{{cite web |last1=Eder |first1=Bruce |title=Vic Briggs Biography |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/vic-briggs-mn0001562168#biography |website=Allmusic |access-date=28 October 2023}}</ref> and grew up in Twickenham.
* [[Dave Brock]], musician ([[Hawkwind]])
* [[Steven Caulker]], professional footballer, born in Feltham.
* [[Thomas Denman (physician)|Thomas Denman]] (1733–1815), [[midwifery]] pioneer, lived in Feltham.
*  [[Mo Farah]], long-distance runner, went to Victoria Junior School and later Feltham Community College, also running for Feltham athletics club.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}
* Film writer and director [[Edmund Goulding]] (1891–1959) was born in Feltham.
* [[Andrew Hall (hedge fund manager)|Andrew Hall]], hedge fund manager.
* [[Buster Lloyd-Jones]] (1914–1980), veterinarian, was born in Feltham.
* Actor [[Derek Martin]], who played [[Charlie Slater]] in ''[[EastEnders]]'', lived in Feltham.
* [[Brian May]], also of rock band Queen, once lived in Feltham.<ref name="culture24.org.uk"/>
* [[Freddie Mercury]] (1946–1991) of the band [[Queen (band)|Queen]], lived in Feltham. A monument on Feltham High Street recognises him.<ref name="culture24.org.uk">{{Cite web|url=https://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/art561233-freddie-mercury-brian-may-queen-plaque|title="He engaged the whole world": Brian May and the creators of Freddie Mercury's blue plaque on his childhood home in London &#124; Culture24|website=www.culture24.org.uk}}</ref>  
* [[Jimmy Page]], guitarist with [[Led Zeppelin]], lived in Feltham.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/no-quarter-the-three-lives-of-jimmy-page-2495409849.html|title=No Quarter: The Three Lives of Jimmy Page, PopMatters|first=PopMatters|last=Staff|date=4 November 2016 }}</ref>

==References==
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;Sources
*[[John Brian Harley|Harley, J. B.]] 1969, cartographical notes to ''Reprint of the first edition of the one-inch Ordnance Survey of England and Wales, Sheet 71 London'', David and Charles, {{ISBN|0-7153-4615-6}}

==External links==
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*[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22203 British History Online] – Spelthorne Hundred – Feltham. (1911)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110211213623/http://felthamwest.info/ FelthamWest.info :: Home] – FelthamWest.info – Local Community Website with local community information for Feltham residents
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