Lower Slaughter
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Map of Gloucestershire
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Lower Slaughter books (20 available)
Cheltenham Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Stroud Photographic Memories
Paperback
Gloucestershire Photographic Memories
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- 9 photos on Lower Slaughter appear in 4 Frith books - View photos of Lower Slaughter
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The Old Post Office
My husbands Aunt, Cicely Minnie Day, was the post mistress at the Post Office in Lower Slaughter when it was situated in the house on the far right of this photo. The sign above the door denoting this fact. When she died in 1954 the post office was moved to another house in the village. As a child my husband spent happy holidays in this house when his Mother and Father visited his family there.
Contributed by Judith Day
Sheer Bliss
I lived in lovely Lower Slaughter in 1991 along with my children's father. How we came to live in such a beautiful place was pure luck. We had applied for jobs in nearby Adlestrop and with the jobs came accomodation, Manor Farm Cotts. I remember an open top mock vintage bus driving through in the summertime, usually american tourists waved on the top deck, it felt surreal. My favourite time of day was early evening, we would stroll along the river breathing the sweet air of honeysuckle. I was pregnant with my first child and just filled with complete peace and contentment. Although only there for a short time I really felt that I was home.
Contributed by Jane MacCallum
Gloucestershire memories
Sheer Bliss
I lived in lovely Lower Slaughter in 1991 along with my children's father. How we came to live in such a beautiful place was pure luck. We had applied for jobs in nearby Adlestrop and with the jobs came accomodation, Manor Farm Cotts. I remember an open top mock vintage bus driving through in the summertime, usually american tourists waved on the top deck, it felt surreal. My favourite time of day was early evening, we would stroll along the river breathing the sweet air of honeysuckle. I was pregnant with my first child and just filled with complete peace and contentment. Although only there for a short time I really felt that I was home.
A memory of Lower Slaughter contributed by Jane MacCallum
The Old Post Office
My husbands Aunt, Cicely Minnie Day, was the post mistress at the Post Office in Lower Slaughter when it was situated in the house on the far right of this photo. The sign above the door denoting this fact. When she died in 1954 the post office was moved to another house in the village. As a child my husband spent happy holidays in this house when his Mother and Father visited his family there.
A memory of Lower Slaughter contributed by Judith Day
Extracts From Lower Slaughter & Gloucestershire books
The names of Lower Slaughter and its near namesake Upper Slaughter may suggest a bloodthirsty episode in the history of their surroundings. The truth, however, is far less fearsome. Some old guide books claim the name derives from the sloe (or blackthorn) tree, but it more likely comes from 'slough', meaning a muddy place.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories".
The River Eye flows through the village on its way to join the River Dickler, which in turn feeds the Windrush to the south of Bourton-on-the-Water. The plentiful supply of streams and rivers provided water power for corn and cloth mills all over the Cotswolds. There has been a mill on this site at Lower Slaughter since before the Norman conquest, though the building shown here dates from around 1800.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Revisited Photographic Memories".
The parish church of St Mary was drastically restored in 1867; a century later the spire was topped in fibre-glass. But the
whole composition still sits comfortably on its more ancient foundations close by the old manor house.
An extract from from"Cotswold Villages Photographic Memories".
Lower Slaughter is best visited on a crisp winter’s day, when the stream is full and the houses stand clear against the morning sun. To see this small village in the absence of too many people is to get a feeling of how isolated these Cotswold villages would have been in earlier times.
An extract from from"Cotswolds Pocket Album".
Water weaves its magic
through the fabric of
this little village, and
the fountain on the
Green makes a focal
point in the perfect
picture; its design
echoes the steeply
pitched and gabled
roofline of the
old cottages.
An extract from from"Cotswold Villages Photographic Memories".