[4] Historically speaking, much of Stocking Pelham was rather heavily dependent on agriculture for income and in some cases this is still apparent.

In comparison to the 1881 Occupational Structure, citizens are no longer heavily dependent on agricultural labour as a means of income and are now harbouring a more diversely skilled workforce, of which 26% are employed in professional occupations and 19.5% are employed as managers, directors and senior officials.

[8] The 40 acres substation was built from 1964, by Balfour Beatty at Crabb's Green Farm, south-east of the village.

[10] The transformers were delivered on Wednesday 10 November 1965 at Tilbury docks, having left Manchester on Monday, being built at AEI on Trafford Park[11] Switchgear was supplied by A. Reyrolle & Company.

[12] The village is notorious for its association with both the kidnap and murder of Muriel McKay and being the home of Christopher Docherty-Puncheon, who shot Lieutenant Colonel Robert Workman, on his doorstep in nearby Furneux Pelham, Hertfordshire, in an "execution-style" killing in 2004.