HENHAM, a parish comprising the hamlet of Pledgon, in. the hundred of CLAVERING, but chiefly in the hundred of UTTLESFORD, county of ESSEX, 4 miles (N.N.E.) from Stansted-Mountfitchet, containing 804 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the jurisdiction of the Commissary of Essex and Herts, concurrently with the Consistorial Court of the Bishop of London, rated in the king's books at £ 17, and in the patronage of Mr. Glynn and Mr. Feake. There is a place of worship for Independents.