BEDFONT (EAST), a parish, in the hundred of SPELTHORNE, county of MIDDLESEX, 3 miles (W.'S.W.) from Hounslow, containing, with the" hamlet of Hatton, 771 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £6. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Bishop of London. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Opposite the entrance are two yewtrees, the branches of which, meeting at the top, form an arch, and have been fantastically cut so as to represent two cocks in a fighting attitude; in the thick foliage of one of them appears the date 1704 (an eccentric individual having made a bequest in that year for keeping them thus trimmed), and in that of the othe* are seen the initials H.I.G.R.T.