Pelham Stocking or Pelham Parva, Hertfordshire

Historical Description

Pelham Stocking or Pelham Parva, a parish in Herts, adjacent to Essex, 5½ miles NE from Braughing station on the Buntingford branch of the G.E.R., and 6 E of Buntingford. Post town and telegraph office, Buntingford; money order office, Hare Street, Great Hormead. Acreage, 647; population, 144. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £105 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of St Albans. The church is a small but very ancient building of flint in the Early Pointed style, consisting of chancel and nave, with a small bell-turret of wood.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

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

Ancient County	Hertfordshire
Ecclesiastical parish	Stocking Pelham St. Mary
Hundred	Edwinstree
Poor Law union	Hitchin

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 Pelham Stocking or Pelham Parva from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pelham, Stocking (St. Mary))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Pelham Stocking or Pelham Parva 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:

Visitations Heraldic

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