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[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]
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- Original source material relating to Lower Slaughter, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.
- The transcription of the section for Lower Slaughter from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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- "Parochial chapelry, united with Upper Slaughter since 1953, previously with Bourton-on-the-Water."
(Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)
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