Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire - from Penshill - Salmon postcard c.1960s

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• Picture / Image:  Lower Slaughter [Glouestershire] from Penshill
• Publisher: J Salmon (2469c)
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^{Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :}

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^{Lower Slaughter is a village in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of Stow-on-the-Wold.}

^{The village is built on both banks of the River Eye, a slow-moving stream crossed by two footbridges, which also flows through Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheeland a chimney for additional steam power. There is a ford where the river widens in the village and several small stone footbridges join the two sides of the community. While the mill is built of red brick most of the 16th and 17th century homes in the village use Cotswold sandstone and are adorned with mullioned windows and often with other embellishments such as projecting gables.}

^{The name of the village derives form the Old English term "slough" meaning "wet land".[1]}

^{Lower Slaughter has been inhabited for over 1,000 years. The Domesday Book entry has the village name as "Sclostre". It further notes that in 1066 and 1086 that the manor was in the sheriff's hands.[2]}

^{The village had a small school by 1863, but it was closed in 1931.}

^{Lower Slaughter Manor, a Grade-II listed 17th-century house, was granted to Sir George Whitmore in 1611 and remained in his family until 1964. The lords of the manor resided in the property until 1961.[3]}

^{Interior of St Mary's}

^{The 13th century Anglican parish church, Grade II listed, is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. Much of the current structure was built in 1867, based on plans by architect Benjamin Ferrey.[4][5]}