PELHAM (FURNEUX), a parish in the hundred of EDWINSTREE, county of HERTFORD, 5 miles (E. by S.) from Buntingford, containing 566 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, consolidated, in 1771, with that of Brent-Pelham, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, London, rated in the king's books at £9, endowed with £250 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of London. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has a chapel, the burial-place of the Calvert family, on the south side of the chancel; and at the west end a square tower, embattled, and surmounted by a short spire. Mrs. Wheatley, in 1754, founded a school, and endowed it with a house and land, for teaching poor children.