Upper Slaughter is a village in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of Stow-on-the-Wold.

[3][4] Upper Slaughter is one of a handful of the Thankful Villages,[5] amongst the small number in England which lost no men in World War I.

[15] Moreover, Upper Slaughter was the site of a Norman adulterine castle, built by supporters of the Empress Matilda during The Anarchy of the 12th century.

The building dates from 1649 since it separated from the Upper Slaughter Manor and has been a hotel since 1960s, furnished with portraits and antiques belonging to its former owner.

[17] On the night of 4 February 1944 during Operation Steinbock a Luftwaffe bomber dropped 2000 incendiary bombs on Upper Slaughter.

Places of architectural interest include: Upper Slaughter has served as a location for the television shows Father Brown, Our Mutual Friend and Interceptor, as well as the film The Sailor's Return.