Gainford is a Village in the county of County Durham.

Retail in Gainford

There are great places to visit near Gainford including some great waterfalls, towns, country parks and airports.

Places near Gainford feature a number of interesting waterfalls including Summerhill Force.

Gainford has some unmissable towns nearby like Stockton-on-Tees, and Middleton-in-Teesdale.

Hardwick Country Park is a great place to visit close to Gainford if you like country parks.

The area around Gainford's best airports can be found at Teesside International Airport.

Gainford History

There are some historic monuments around Gainford:

• Roman bridge at Piercebridge
• Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary 235m south of Stanwick Hall Reservoir
• Section of Scots Dike linear boundary north west of High Merrybent
• Cup and ring marked stone 440m NNE of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
• Whorlton suspension bridge
• Manfield shrunken medieval village and associated field system
• Small multivallate hillfort and tower mill on Shackleton Beacon Hill
• Two moated sites, the site of a dovecote and further associated features 120m north west and 180m north of The Old Hall
• Cup and ring marked stone 350m north west of north corner of Folly Plantation
• Cup and ring marked stone 650m SSE of Jenny's Plantation
• Medieval cross at Barton
• Summerhouse moated site and associated drainage channels, enclosure and field system
• Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation, 360m ENE of Shooters Well
• Round barrow 340m east of Cliffe Hall known as Betty Watson's Hill
• Five Hills round barrow
• Smotherlaw round barrow
• Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary, 650m ENE of Park House
• Enclosures and industrial workings on Cockfield Fell
• Cup and ring marked stone 435m south of Jenny's Plantation
• Piercebridge Bridge
• Barforth Bridge
• Cup marked stone 490m NNE of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
• Section of Scots Dike linear boundary north of Kirklands Farm
• Cup marked stone 505m south east of Jenny's Plantation
• St Lawrence's Chapel, manorial settlement remains and dovecote
• Cup marked stone 495m south east of Jenny's Plantation
• Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation, 365m east of Shooters Well
• Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation, 360m east of Shooters Well
• Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary 600m south east of Park House
• Cup marked stone 18m south of Stone Man Plantation
• Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation, 440m ENE of Shooters Well
• Ring cairn on Gayles Moor
• Cup and ring marked stone 530m NNW of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
• Cup marked stone 525m SSW of Jenny's Plantation
• Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary 250m north of Langdale
• Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation, 370m ENE of Shooters Well
• Stanwick Late Iron Age oppidum, Iron Age and medieval settlement, early Christian church and sculpture and post-medieval emparkment
• Ring cairn on Gayles Plantation, 390m ENE of Shooters Well
• Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation 370m ESE of Shooters Well
• Cup and ring marked stone 585m SSW of Jenny's Plantation
• Section of Scots Dike linear boundary south of Kirklands Farm
• Cup marked stone 370m NNW of north corner of Folly Plantation
• Cup marked stone 565m north of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
• Packhorse bridge across Aldbrough Beck, immediately south west of High Green
• Packhorse bridge
• Round barrow 190m south east of Cliffe Hall
• Cup and ring marked stone 415m NNW of Folly Plantation
• Cup and ring marked stone on Gayles Plantation 410m north of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
• Cup and ring marked stone 520m north east of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
• Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation 490m ENE of Shooters Well
• Roman fort and prehistoric enclosed settlement 400m west of Carkin Moor Farm
• Cup marked stone 495m NNE of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
• Deserted medieval village at Walworth
• Cup marked stone 565m NNE of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
• Piercebridge Roman fort
• Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary in Low Wood, Langdale
• Cup marked stone 620m south of Jenny's Plantation
• Legs Cross
• Ravensworth motte and bailey castle, water defence features, park pale and shrunken medieval village
• Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary east of Langdale Rush
• Deserted medieval village of Ulnaby
• Cup and ring marked stone 465m NNE of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
• Medieval settlement remains immediately south east of Hutton Hall
• Remains of the Stockton and Darlington Railway
• Castle Steads slight univallate hillfort and associated outwork