PELHAM (STOCKING), a parish in the hundred of EDWINSTREE, county of HERTFORD, 65 miles (E.) from Buntingford, containing 150 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £7. 10.7., and in the patronage of - Calvert, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has a small wooden tower with a low spire.