Upper Slaughter

Upper Slaughter

Upper Slaughter
Upper Slaughter
 Upper Slaughter shown within Gloucestershire
Population 177 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSP154231
Civil parishUpper Slaughter
DistrictCotswold
Shire countyGloucestershire
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town CHELTENHAM
Postcode district GL54
Dialling code 01451
Police Gloucestershire
Fire Gloucestershire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK ParliamentCotswold
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Coordinates: 51°54′22″N 1°46′37″W / 51.906°N 1.777°W

Upper Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire located in the Cotswold district located 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. Nearby places include Lower Slaughter, Bourton-on-the-Water and Daylesford.

The village is built on both banks of the River Eye. The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Peter.[2][3]

Upper Slaughter was identified by author Arthur Mee as one of 32 Thankful Villages, although more recent work suggests a total of 52.[4] This term referred to the small number of villages in England and Wales which had lost no men in World War I, and was popularised by Mee in the 1930s. In Enchanted Land (1936), the introductory volume to "The King’s England" series of guides, he wrote "that a Thankful Village was one which had lost no men in the Great War because all those who left to serve came home again."[5] Although the village was subject to an air raid, it also lost no men in World War II, an honour held by only 14 villages, collectively known as the Doubly Thankful Villages.[5][6]

The parliamentary constituency is represented by Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP.

The largest business in the village is the Lords of the Manor Hotel.

Architecture

Places of architectural interest include:

Gallery

References

Media related to Upper Slaughter at Wikimedia Commons

  1. ↑ "Parish population 2015.Retrieved 25 March 2015".
  2. ↑ The Buildings of England, ed Nikolaus_Pevsner
  3. ↑ Elrington, C. R. (1965). A History of the County of Gloucester: volume 6. pp. 134–142.
  4. ↑ "The thankful villages by Norman Thorpe, Rod Morris and Tom Morgan". Hellfirecorner.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kelly, Jon (11 November 2011). "Thankful villages: The places where everyone came back from the wars". BBC News. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
  6. ↑ "Parishes - Upper Slaughter | A History of the County of Gloucester: volume 6 (pp. 134-142)". British-history.ac.uk. 1913-10-04. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
  • The Buildings of England Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds, David Very and Alan Brooks, Penguin Books 1999