Upper Slaughter is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in the English county of Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....

 located in the Cotswold district

Cotswold (district)

Cotswold is a local government district in Gloucestershire in England. It is named after the wider Cotswolds region. Its main town is Cirencester....

 located 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold

Stow-on-the-Wold

Stow-on-the-Wold is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is situated on top of an 800 ft hill, at the convergence of a number of major roads through the Cotswolds, including the Fosse Way . The town was founded as a planned market place by Norman lords to take...

. Nearby places include Lower Slaughter

Lower Slaughter

Lower Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire, located in the Cotswold district, south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold....

, Bourton-on-the-Water

Bourton-on-the-Water

Bourton-on-the-Water is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England that lies on a wide flat vale within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty...

 and Daylesford

Daylesford, Gloucestershire

Daylesford is a small village in Gloucestershire, England, on the border with Oxfordshire. It is situated off the A436 near Stow-on-the-Wold and five miles west of Chipping Norton. The village is on the north bank of the small River Evenlode...

.

The village is built on both banks of the River Eye

River Eye, Gloucestershire

The River Eye is a river in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire which flows through the villages of Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter....

. The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Peter.

Upper Slaughter was identified by author Arthur Mee

Arthur Mee

Arthur Henry Mee was a British writer, journalist and educator. He is best known for The Harmsworth Self-Educator, The Children's Encyclopaedia, The Children's Newspaper, and The King's England...

 as one of 32 Thankful Villages

Thankful Villages

Thankful Villages are settlements in both England and Wales from which all their then members of the armed forces survived World War I. The term Thankful Village was popularised by the writer Arthur Mee in the 1930s...

, although more recent work suggests a total of 52. This term referred to the small number of villages in England and Wales which had lost no men in World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, and was popularised by Mee in the 1930s. In Enchanted Land (1936), the introductory volume to "The King’s England" series of guides, he wrote "that a Thankful Village was one which had lost no men in the Great War because all those who left to serve came home again." Although the village was subject to an air raid, it also lost no men in World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, an honour held by only 14 villages.

The constituency is represented by Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP.

The largest business in the village is the Lords of the Manor Hotel.

Architecture

Places of architectural interest include:

• St Peter's Church
• Upper Slaughter Manor
• Home Farmhouse
• The Old School House
• Castle Mound
• Rose Row
• The Square