Slipton has a small but exquisite church,[1] St John The Baptist, a short walk from Main Street by footpath on the east side of the village.

Two small areas were quarried on the west side of the Sudborough to Slipton road between 1894 and 1912.

All three mines were entered through adits driven into quarry faces and production ceased in 1936.

The ore and limestone were taken by a three-foot gauge tramway operated by steam locomotives to be used in the iron works at Islip..

Ore and stone was gained by hand with the aid of explosives for the most part but steam quarrying machines were used from the 1920s and compressed air drills and picks were tried in one of the mines in 1932.

These included mine entrances (two bricked up) and some collapsed pieces of the adits.

Due to a dispute, in 1291, the Abbey surrendered their rights of advowson to the Hospital of St John in Northampton in exchange for a yearly pension of 10 shillings.

[2] The rights were in 1640 transferred by the then owner to John, Earl of Peterborough (a later member of the Mordaunt family) as part of a payment for afforestation at the Forest of Rockingham.