Description
Slaughter, Lower, a parish, with a village, in Gloucestershire, 1 mile N by W of Bourton-on-the-Water station on the G.W.R., and 3 miles SW of Stow-on-the-Wold. It has a post and money order office under Moreton-in-the-Marsh (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Bourton-on-the-Water. Acreage, 974; population, 231. There is a parish council consisting-of five members. The manor has belonged to the Whitmore family since 1605. The manor house was erected about 1770. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Bourton-on-the-Water. The church was rebuilt in 1867. There is a Baptist chapel. A public hall was built in 1887.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
