In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Lower Slaughter like this:
SLAUGHTER (Lower), a parish, with a village, in Stow-on-the-Wold district, Gloucester; 1 mile N by W of Bourton-on-the-Water r. station. It has a post-office under Moreton-in-the-Marsh. Acres, 1,140. Real property, £2,340. Pop., 212. Houses, 48. The manor belongs to S. Whitmore, Esq. The living is p. curacy, annexed to Bourton-on-the-Water. The church is Norman and early English.
Lower Slaughter through time
Lower Slaughter is now part of Cotswold district. Click here for graphs and data of how Cotswold has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Lower Slaughter itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Lower Slaughter, in Cotswold and Gloucestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11277
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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