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Upper Slaughter is a village in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, 4 miles south west of Stow-on-the-Wold. Nearby places include Lower Slaughter, Bourton-on-the-Water and Daylesford. The village is built on both banks of the River Eye. The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Peter.Upper Slaughter was one of the Thankful Villages, amonsgt the small number in England which lost no men in World War I. The village also lost no men in World War II, an honour known as a Doubly Thankful Village. The parliamentary constituency is represented by Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP.
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  • 1. St Peter's Church Upper Slaughter
    Saint Ursula is a Romano-British Christian saint, died on October 21, 383. Her feast day in the pre-1970 General Roman Calendar is October 21. There is little definite information about her and the anonymous group of holy virgins who accompanied her and on some uncertain date were killed at Cologne. They remain in the Roman Martyrology, although their commemoration does not appear in the simplified Calendarium Romanum Generale of the 1970 Missale Romanum.The earliest evidence of her is a 4th- or 5th-century inscription from the Church of St. Ursula, located on Ursulaplatz in Cologne which states that the ancient basilica had been restored on the site where some holy virgins were killed.Her legendary status comes from a medieval story that she was a princess who, at the request of her fathe...
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