[1] Barrasford is an ancient village that lies within the shadow of Haughton Castle.

The village is notable for being the location of a Bronze Age burial site where the Reaverhill Dagger was excavated in 1964.

In 1902 a subscription fund was set up to finance the building of a sanatorium to treat patients.

The Newcastle upon Tyne and Northumberland sanatorium opened in 1907 on the moors above the neighbouring villages of Barrasford and Gunnerton.

It treated victims of tuberculosis at a time when 60,000 people a year were dying from the disease in England and Wales, and the annual mortality rate in Newcastle alone was nearly 600.