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Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire

Upper Slaughter Upper Slaughter is a pretty village in Gloucestershire, amongst the Cotswold Hills. It stands on both banks of the River Eye, upstream of the village of Lower Slaughter and is found 4 miles south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. The parish church is dedicated to St Peter but it contains no war memorial, for Upper Slaughter is a 'Thankful Village', one of the very few villages in Britain which lost no men in First World War. It is indeed Doubly Thankful, as Upper Slaughter lost none of its sons in the Second World War either, a distinction of just fourteen villages. The village did not escape war as men of Upper Slaughter served in both World Wars and indeed the village was subject to an air raid in 1944, though without casualties. (Read more)