Furneux Pelham, Hertfordshire

Description
Furneaux Pelham, a village and a parish in Herts, on the river A,sh, and on the verge of the county, 4 miles NE from Braughing station on the G.E.R., and 8 NNW of Bishop-Stortford, with a post office under Buntingford; money order office, Hare Street; telegraph office, Buntingford. Acreage of the civil parish, 2585; population, 540; of the ecclesiastical, 755. The manor belonged at the Conquest to the Pelhams of Stanmer, passed to the Brocklesbys, belonged in the time of Henry III. to Simon de Furnenx, and passed to the Lees, the Newports, the Morleys, and others. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Brent-Pelham in the diocese of St Albans; joint gross yearly value, £252 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of St Albans. The church is an ancient building of flint and stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, and contains a number of monuments, including a very fine one of marble, and some fine carved work. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels. Fumeaux Pelham Hall is an old mansion in the Elizabethan style.