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Upper Slaughter

Upper Slaughter is a village in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of Stow-on-the-Wold.

Upper Slaughter
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The place

Upper 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 lies off the A429, which is known as the Fosse Way, and is located one mile away from its twin village Lower Slaughter, as well as being near the villages Bourton-on-the-Water, Daylesford, Upper Swell and Lower Swell. It is built on both banks of the River Eye. The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Upper Slaughter

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Birdland Park and Gardens

    Birdland Park and Gardens, often called Birdland, is a wildlife park in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. First opened in 1957, the park moved to its current site in 1989.

    3.3 km · zoo in Bourton-on-the-Water · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cotswold Motoring Museum

    The Cotswold Motoring Museum is a museum in the Cotswolds village of Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. It features motoring history of the 20th century.

    2.7 km · museum in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Lower Swell War Memorial

    Lower Swell War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the centre of the village of Lower Swell in Gloucestershire in south-western England. The memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, was unveiled in 1921 and is today a grade II listed building.

    3.1 km · war memorial in Swell, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Upper Slaughter

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 61 km · Bristol (BRS), 87 km · London Luton (LTN), 97 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Upper Slaughter
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £9–12
  • London → Upper Slaughter
    122 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £13–17
  • Bristol → Upper Slaughter
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–11
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Upper Slaughter

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Upper Slaughter. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    139 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    216 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    464 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    481 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    500 km

If you know how people move in Upper Slaughter – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Upper Slaughter

Upper Slaughter is 59 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.