Rainton Gate is a Village in the county of County Durham.

Retail in Rainton Gate

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

Rainton Gate is near some unmissable waterfalls like Summerhill Force,

Stockton-on-Tees, and Middleton-in-Teesdale are great places to visit near Rainton Gate if you like towns.

The area close to Rainton Gate boasts some of the best country parks including Hardwick Country Park.

There are a number of airports near to Rainton Gate including Teesside International Airport.

Rainton Gate History

There are some historic monuments around Rainton Gate:

• Seven Sisters round barrow, Copt Hill, Houghton-le-Spring
• The Water Gate
• Croxdale medieval chapel and churchyard cross base
• Neville's Cross
• Chester New Bridge
• Old Thornley medieval settlement, open field system and hollow way, 110m north of Thornley Hall Farm
• Maiden Castle promontory fort
• Settlement SW of Harbour House Farm
• Kepier Hospital
• Moated site at Low Butterby Farm
• Ludworth Tower
• High Haswell Chapel 300m south east of Low Haswell
• Enclosed hilltop settlement on Pig Hill, 600m south west of High Fallowfield
• Chapel of St Mary Magdalene
• Defended settlement on Humbledon Hill
• Hasting Hill cursus and causewayed enclosure, 600m south of Hasting Hill Farm
• Finchale Priory Benedictine cell: hermitage, monastic precinct and site of priory watermill
• Maiden's Bower round cairn
• Concangium Roman fort
• Prebend's Bridge
• Harbour House Chapel
• Bowes Railway
• Framwellgate Bridge
• Medieval settlement and open field system at Old Wingate
• Haswell Colliery engine house, 180m north west of Plough Farm
• Elvet Bridge
• Sherburnhouse Bridge
• Coal mining remains in Mallygill Wood
• Prior's Hall, Hallgarth
• Coxhoe medieval settlement, 170m south west of East House Farm
• Round barrow on Hasting Hill, 230m west of Hasting Hill Farm
• Sunderland Bridge, near Croxdale