[1] The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) says: WINDRUSH, a parish in the lower division of Slaughter hundred, county Gloucester, 5 miles S.E.

The village is situated on the Windrush rivulet, which rises among the Cotswold hills, and joins the Thames near Standlake.

[2]During the Second World War, the parish hosted RAF Windrush, a Royal Air Force Relief Landing Ground.

[3] Windrush forms part of the Cotswold District, which together with Gloucestershire County Council provides local government services.

It is part of the parliamentary constituency of North Cotswolds[4] represented in parliament by the Conservative Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown.