The Slack is a Village in the county of County Durham.

Retail in The Slack

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

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

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

Don't miss Hardwick Country Park's country parks if visiting the area around The Slack.

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

The Slack History

There are some historic monuments around The Slack:

• Barnard Castle: ringwork, shell keep castle, chapel and dovecote
• Egglestone Abbey Premonstratensian monastery: inner precinct, monastic enclosures and post-medieval house
• Carved rock 160m north west of Abbey Farm
• Bradley Hall fortified house and underground passages, moated site, pillow mound and fishponds
• Whorlton suspension bridge
• St Lawrence's Chapel, manorial settlement remains and dovecote
• Harperley Working Camp, World War II prisoner of war camp at Craigside
• Penny Hill camp
• Remains of St Michael's Church, 50m north west of Dairy Bridge, Rokeby Park
• 'The Castles' (camp)
• Carved rock, cist and cairnfield 580m west of Hindon Edge
• Enclosures and industrial workings on Cockfield Fell
• Thorsgill Beck packhorse bridge
• Barforth Bridge