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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Brent Pelham like this:
BRENT-PELHAM, a parish in Bishop-Stortford district, Herts; on the verge of the county, 5 miles E of Buntingford r. station. It has a post office under Buntingford. Acres, 1,601. Real property, £2,120. Pop., 286. Houses, 60. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage, united with Furneux-Pelham, in the dio. of Rochester. Value, £320.* Patron, the Treas. of St. Paul's. The church was recently restored.
Brent Pelham is now part of EAST HERTFORDSHIRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how EAST HERTFORDSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Brent Pelham itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Brent Pelham, in East Hertfordshire and Hertfordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2820
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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