The village has a crossing point of the Bybrook River, and lies in a wooded valley between Castle Combe and Box.

[5] Slaughterford was a separate civil parish with its own church until it was merged with Biddestone on 1 April 1934.

The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the rectory of Biddestone, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol.

[9] Built in the 15th century, it was partly destroyed about 1649 by Richard Cromwell's troops on their way to Ireland, and lay in ruins until rebuilt in 1823.

[11] The benefice was united with Biddestone sometime before 1953,[12] and today the parish is part of the Bybrook Team Ministry.