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UPPER 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)]
"UPPER SLAUGHTER, a parish in the hundred of Lower Slaughter, county Gloucester, 1 mile W. of Lower Slaughter, and 3½ miles S.W. of Stow-on-the-Wold, its post town. The surface is hilly, comprising a portion of the Cotswold hills, and the lower grounds are watered by two streams which form the head waters of the river Windrush. The village is small and wholly agricultural. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £131. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is an ancient edifice partly Norman. The parochial charities produce about £72 per annum, of which £11 go towards the support of a school."

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