Lower Slaughter

Lower Slaughter
Lower Slaughter is located in Gloucestershire
Lower Slaughter
Lower Slaughter
Location within Gloucestershire
OS grid referenceSP1638422561
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCHELTENHAM
Postcode districtGL54
Dialling code01451
PoliceGloucestershire
FireGloucestershire
AmbulanceSouth Western
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51°54′22″N 1°46′37″W / 51.906°N 1.777°W / 51.906; -1.777

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 Lower Slaughter’s twin village Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheel and 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 limestone 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]

  1. ^ "The Cotswolds". Archived from the original on 6 November 2018. Retrieved 16 July 2020.