In 1999, excavations on the former Feltham marshalling yard, located on the western border of Whitton, unearthed remains of an Iron Age furnace and post holes from a round house.

The manor had belonged to Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia[5] in the time of Edward the Confessor, but was granted to Walter de Saint-Valery (Waleric) by William the Conqueror after 1066.

Around 1540, gunpowder started to be produced on Hounslow Heath, which at the time covered a large part of Twickenham.

The site, beside the River Crane, was to become known as the Hounslow Gunpowder Mills, and was chosen in part as it was away from built-up areas, lessening the impact of accidental explosions.

Sir John later replaced his first house with a grander residence on land adjoining today's Warren Road.

At the centre of the original village, about 200 metres from Kneller Hall, is the White Hart, an inn dating back to at least the mid-17th century and possibly much earlier.

A document of 1685 shows that it provided three beds and stabling for ten horses, numbers which did not seem to fit with Whitton's apparent status as a sleepy rural hamlet with only a few dozen inhabitants.

Whitton was renowned as a market garden, known for its roses, narcissi, lilies of the valley and for its apple, plum and pear orchards.

Following the coming of the railways in the mid-19th century, there was some housing development along Nelson, Kneller and Hounslow Roads.

Houses replaced the market gardens and the former Whitton Park estate, while new parades of shops were built on either side of Percy Road from the new railway station to the junction with Nelson and Hounslow Roads, this stretch then being renamed High Street Whitton.

Before 1944, 86 Hounslow Road received a direct hit from a German bomb and was badly damaged, though not destroyed.

A common sight during the Blitz was of RAF fighters scrambling from nearby airfields almost at rooftop height, low enough for the pilots to be seen in their cockpits.

London Heathrow Airport is important to the local economy both through direct employment and the cluster of international firms that have their European headquarters in the Thames Valley area.

Hounslow Heath, a large open space and local conservation area is heavily used by the town's residents.

The local council has built a new arts centre in Twickenham which has a 300-seat auditorium for dual theatre and cinema use.

[20] In September 2013,[21] Richmond Council opened a youth centre located behind Whitton High Street in Britannia Lane.

The only remaining country house left in Whitton is Kneller Hall, which was home to the Royal Military School of Music.

The building of Whitton Baptist Church was funded by the compensation paid for the compulsory purchase of St Margaret's Baptist Church, which was demolished during the construction of the Great Chertsey Road approach to the new Twickenham Bridge across the Thames in 1932.

Going the other direction the A316 passes by Twickenham town centre and then Richmond, Kew, Mortlake, and finally Chiswick where it joins The Great West Road A4.

Plans to increase the frequency of the 'semi-fast' service to four trains per hour were first discussed in the Wessex Route Study consultation held in 2014 and are expected to be included in the new South Western franchise.

The land is between 60 and 70 feet above sea level and is noticeable flat and fertile and was once home to extensive market gardens until the turn of the twentieth century.

However, Vince Cable, the Twickenham MP when to Parliament and requested Royal Mail to create Whitton as a post town.