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LOWER SLAUGHTER, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"LOWER SLAUGHTER, a parish in the hundred of the same name, county Gloucester, 3 miles S.W. of Stow-on-the-Wold, its post town, and 6 N.E. of Northleach. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on a branch of the river Windrush, and is chiefly agricultural. The soil consists of stonebrash. The living is a curacy annexed to the rectory of Burton-on-the-Water, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is an ancient structure. General Sir George Whitmore is lord of the manor and principal landowner."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]