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Stocking Pelham
Adjacent Parishes: Berden (Essex), Brent Pelham, Furneaux Pelham
It is in Edwinstree Hundred and the Bishop Stortford Union
STOCKING PELHAM, on the Essex border (5½ miles from Braughing Station, Great Eastern Railway) has an Early English church dating from early fourteenth century; it has no tower. The chancel was restored in 1864. The manor is very ancient, and was held by Simon de Furneaux in the reigh of Edward I., but the village now shows little of interest.
Hertfordshire Little Guide 1903
Stocking Pelham (5 miles N.E.) is a very small parish on the Essex border. Records of this manor go back to very early times. The little church has no tower but retains fragments of ancient glass in some windows. The rectory has traces of a moat.
Braughing Rural District Official Guide 1971
Web: There is a web site for The Pelhams which is of limited interest to the genealogist.
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Some modern pictures of Stocking Pelham on Geograph |
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See also Vital Records
If you know of other books, websites, etc, relating to this place, please tell me.
Page updated April 2007.