The area was for many decades a notorious place for highway robberies and its surviving old inn, The Green Man has a hiding-hole behind the chimney.

The east of Hatton is noisy due to aircraft frequently landing or taking off and at Myrtle Avenue there is a well-cut green for spotting of aeroplanes.

[3] Adjoining the Green Man is a field where horses, geese, cows and other livestock live: Hounslow Urban Farm[4] next to Hatton Cemetery.

Apart from the remaining kernel of Hounslow Heath, the Borough is highly built up or in public parks, having modest average garden size.

In what was once squarely but is today the debatable south of Hatton a 24-hour Tesco supermarket and petrol station adjoining the urban farm.

Several older properties remain in Green Man Lane, including the old Manor house (now the headquarters of a car leasing company) and two other 18th century dwellings.

Air France-KLM's head office for United Kingdom and Ireland operations, which includes facilities for both, is at Plesman House in Hatton Cross.

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.

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.

[7] 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.

[7] In 2008, British Airways Flight 38 crashed just short of the south runway upon landing after passing over Hatton's Myrtle Avenue and the A30 at Heathrow's southern perimeter.

Other than this – Staines Road of Roman origin traditionally marking the south border – the local main street ran NNW to Harlington Corner.

The area is served by a number of London Buses routes, connecting Hatton to the airport, Hounslow, Northolt, Southall, Richmond and Staines.