Description
Barrasford, a township in Chollerton parish, Northumberland, on the North Tyne river, and on the Border Counties railway, 7 1/2 miles NNW of Hexham. It has a station on the North British Railway, and has a post and money order office, R.S.O. (Northumberland). The right of a weekly market for il was obtained by Robert de Umfraville from Edward I., but has long been in abeyance.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
