Upper Slaughter

Upper Slaughter

Infobox UK place
country= England
region= South West England
official_name= Upper Slaughter
static_

static_image_caption= Upper Slaughter
civil_parish=
shire_district= Cotswold
shire_county= Gloucestershire
os_grid_reference= SP154231
latitude= 51.90641
longitude= -1.77736
population=
dial_code= 01451
post_town= CHELTENHAM
postcode_district= GL54
postcode_area= GL
constituency_westminster= Cotswold

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

Upper Slaughter was identified by author Arthur Mee as one of the 32 Thankful Villages.

A term for the small number of villages in England and Wales which lost no men in World War I. The term Thankful Village was popularised by the writer Arthur 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." "

The village is built on both banks of the River Eye. The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Peter [ [http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/gloucestershire/theslaughters1.html Photographs] ] .

The 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:
- St Peter's Church
- Upper Slaughter Manor
- Home Farmhouse
- The Old School House
- Castle Mound
- Rose Row
- The Square

Gallery

References

The Buildings of England Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds, David Very and Alan Brooks, Penguin Books 1999 [The Buildings of England, ed Nikolaus_Pevsner]

cite book
last = Elrington
first = C. R.
authorlink = C. R. Elrington (editor)
coauthors =
title = A History of the County of Gloucester: volume 6
publisher =
date = 1965
location =
pages = 134-142
url = http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66437
doi =
id =
isbn =
*http://www.fylde.demon.co.uk/thankful.htm


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