Brent Pelham, Hertfordshire

Historical Description

Brent-Pelham, a parish in Herts, on the verge of the county, 5 miles E of Buntingford station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Buntingford (R.S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1636; population of the civil parish, 215; of the ecclesiastical, with Furneaux-Pelham, 755. The living is a vicarage, united with Furneaux-Pelham, in the diocese of St Albans; joint gross yearly value, £360. Patron, the Bishop of St Albans. The church is a building of flint in the Early English style. Pelham Hall is a chief residence.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Brent Pelham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pelham, Brent (Virgin Mary))

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hertfordshire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Brent Pelham are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Hertfordshire newspapers online:

• Hertford Mercury and Reformer
• Herts Guardian, Agricultural Journal, and General Advertiser
• Watford Observer

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Hertfordshire, 1572 and 1634. Edited by Walter C. Metcalfe, F.S.A. is available on the Heraldry page.