Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SLAUGHTER

SLAUGHTER, a hundred in Gloucestershire, adjacent to Oxfordshire; containing 21 parishes, and 2 parts; and cut into two divisions, lower and upper. Acres, 23,739 and 15,198. Pop. in 1851, 4,838 and 4,805; in 1861, 9,365. Houses, 2,104.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Gloucestershire Ancient County       Oxfordshire Ancient County
Place: Slaughter

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