Distance from Broadway - 14 miles
(3 miles - Stow, & 2 miles Bourton-on-the-Water)
Two very pretty Cotswold villages - Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter - are very secluded and quiet. The name of Slaughter has no connection with blood but is derived from the old English word "Slohtre" meaning a muddy place, which it may once have been but not anymore.
The river Eye flows through the centre of Lower Slaughter setting off the cottages and their small colourful gardens to perfection. Lower Slaughter Manor was built in 1658 for the High Sheriff of Gloucestershire and is now a Country House Hotel and a Victorian Corn Mill, with a working water wheel. The mill has been converted into a gift shop and museum and is owned by one of the countries premier former jazz singers. Also worth visiting is the pretty little church of St. Mary, which is usually decorated with flowers.
Upper Slaughter is a charming village with typical Cotswold stone houses and an historic Norman Church, St. Peters with parts dating back to the 12th century. The cottages that comprise The Square were reconstructed by the well known architect Sir Edward Lutyens in 1906. There is also The Lords of the Manor Hotel formerly The Manor House and a tiny Methodist chapel down by the brook dating from 1865.
