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| The Hundreds of Gloucestershire, as with hundreds in other English counties, were the original geographic divisions of the county for administrative, military and judicial purposes. Each hundred covered a number of parishes. The introduction of civil registration in 1837 was accompanied by the creation of other groups of parishes such as Sanitary Districts and Poor Law Unions.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Slaughter Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "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. Population in 1851: 4,838 and 4,805; in 1861: 9,365. Houses: 2,104."
A much more extensive description of the Slaughter Hundred will be found in the Victoria County History of Gloucestershire found in the website British History Online.
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Parishes
| Parish | Description | Notes
| | Adlestrop | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Bledington | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Bourton on the Water | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Broadwell (near Stow on the Wold) | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Church Icomb | hamlet, civil parish | a hamlet in Icomb parish, formerly in Worcestershire
| | Clapton | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Condicote | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Donnington | hamlet, civil parish |
| | Eyford | extra parochial area, parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Great Barrington | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Great Rissington | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Icomb | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Little Barrington | chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Little Rissington | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Lower Slaughter | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Lower Swell | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Maugersbury | hamlet, civil parish |
| | Naunton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Oddington | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Sherborne | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Stow on the Wold | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Upper Slaughter | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Westcote | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Wyck Rissington | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Widford | parish (ancient), civil parish | transferred to Oxfordshire in 1844
| | Windrush | chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish |
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