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Places to stay in Upper Slaughter
The village of Upper Slaughter in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds is one mile away from Lower Slaughter and resides on a gentle grassy slope above the stream that connects the two villages. Once the village was dominated by a Norman castle but all that can be seen of it today are the remains of the motte and bailey. Eyford House in Upper Slaughter has been named the nation’s favourite house by a national magazine Country Life in 2011. The property, a classical Cotswolds home in idyllic grounds where poet John Milton stayed and legend has it was inspired to write Paradise Lost. The building that dominates Upper Slaughter is the beautiful gabled Manor House which is one of the finest buildings in the area. The oldest part of the house dates from the 15th century but the front is Elizabethan.
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