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The name of the village of Lower Slaughter stems from the Old English name for a wet land 'slough' or 'slothre' (Old English for muddy place) upon which it lies. This quaint village sits beside the little Eye stream and is known for its unspoilt limestone cottages in the traditional Cotswold style.
The stream running through the village is crossed by two small bridges.
VOTED MOST ROMANTIC STREET IN BRITAIN
Copse Hill Road in Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire Cotswolds, has been named as the most romantic street in Britain in a poll for Google Street View.
A photo from a lovely few days in the Cotswolds. This is the Old Mill in Lower Slaughter. They do know how to do perfect English villages in this area. My photo doesn't do it justice.
While culling my photo archives (an important project for me unless I want to blowup my computer) I came across this Pic of one of my favorite Birds. Captured January 4, 2015, it shows a Snowy attempting to keep warm on a crisp January morning.
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The Snowy Egret:
A beautiful, graceful small egret, very active in its feeding behavior in shallow waters. Known by its contrasting yellow feet, could be said to dance in the shallows on golden slippers. The species was slaughtered for its plumes in the 19th century, but protection brought a rapid recovery of numbers, and the Snowy Egret is now more widespread and common than ever. Its delicate appearance is belied by its harsh and raucous calls around its nesting colonies.
Adult Snowy Egrets are all white with a black bill, black legs, and yellow feet. They have a patch of yellow skin at the base of the bill. Immature Snowy Egrets have duller, greenish legs.
Snowy Egrets wade in shallow water to spear fish and other small aquatic animals. While they may employ a sit-and-wait technique to capture their food, sometimes they are much more animated, running back and forth through the water with their wings spread, chasing their prey.
Snowy Egrets nest colonially, usually on protected islands, and often with other small herons. They concentrate on mudflats, beaches, and wetlands, but also forage in wet agricultural fields and along the edges of rivers and lakes.
(Nikon, 80-400 @ 400 mm, 1/1250 @ f/9, ISO 1250, edited to taste)
In The Cotswolds
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The name of the village derives form the Old English term "slough" meaning "wet land"
The village is built on both banks of the River Eye, a slow-moving stream crossed by two footbridges, which also flows through Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheel and a chimney for additional steam power. There is a ford where the river widens in the village and several small stone footbridges join the two sides of the community. While the mill is built of red brick most of the 16th and 17th century homes in the village use Cotswold limestone and are adorned with mullioned windows and often with other embellishments such as projecting gables.
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Here's a photo from our campsite along the Missouri from this past summer. The slaughter campsite was named by the Lewis and Clark expedition due to the 100 or so dead bison that were found in the area. They assumed the buffalo had been run off a cliff, a common way of slaughtering the animals in that day. Later, it was determined that the carcasses had floated down river and accumulated there when the ice broke that year.
This was our last morning on the river. It was a 10 or 12 mile float to our pull-out at Judith Landing. We then headed back to Missoula and were in town by dinner time.
The Cotswolds town of Lower Slaughter is built on both banks of the River Eye and is thought to have been inhabited for at least 1000 years.
One of our favorite activities from our trip to the UK was wandering the Cotswolds on public bridleways. England has “public rights of way” which are paths where anyone is allowed to pass. These often go through the countryside, fields, and even backyards. One of our days in the Cotswolds we took a trek via a public bridleway from Lower Slaughter to Stow-on-the-Wold to Wyck Rissington to Bourton-on-the-Water and then back to Lower Slaughter.
The Cotswold village of Lower Slaughter in March...a time with very few visitors and you can have the place to yourself
One wonders at the name Slaughter given to this beautiful little town on the Cotswold's, UK.
Apparently there are two theories- the name Slaughter comes from the old English word “Slothre” meaning muddy, and so it became known as muddy crossings of the River Eye. Alternatively, Upper Slaughter Manor dates back to the Saxon Period. Sometime in the 12th.
It is a gorgeous little town with quaint buildings, a mill and the river Eye flowing through the middle. A place where time has almost stopped, and horse riders amble along the footpath without the rumble of cars (no cars allowed). My wonderful friend Paul took us here from Wales for a day trip and we visited all the small villages in the Cotswold's. A magnificent day.
15000x9000, Multipanel panorama of the Old Water Mill at Lower Slaughter in the Cotswolds. Stitched using PTGui.
Taken in summer, I've only just got around to developing this huge panorama.
House in either Upper Slaughter or Lower Slaughter in Gloustershire, England, 2017. I love the old stone buildings and the English gardens I saw in the Cotswolds, which are second only to the people there and the beauty of the area. I cannot wait to visit again.
Lower Slaughter a fascinating name, which derives from 'miry place'. The link is the tiny River Eye, tributary to the nearby river Windrush. Lower Slaughter is just off the Fosse Way. The village is considered to be one of the prettiest in the area and is well photographed and the village has been used for filming and productions.
Not the most inviting of village names but certainly one of the most attractive locations in the Cotswolds. It even manages to look cosy in Winter (must go back in Summer ..)
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