Place:Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, England

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NameJarrow
Alt namesDanumsource: Perseus Digital Library (2000) accessed 03/09/2001
TypeTown
Coordinates54.983°N 1.483°W
Located inTyne and Wear, England     (300 - )
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Jarrow ( or ) is a town in South Tyneside metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, England, about east of Newcastle. It is situated on the south bank of the River Tyne, about from the east coast. It is home to the southern portal of the Tyne Tunnel. In 2011, Jarrow had a population of 43,431.

Jarrow is part of the historic County Palatine of Durham. In the eighth century, the monastery of Saint Paul in Jarrow (now Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey) was the home of The Venerable Bede, who is regarded as the greatest Anglo-Saxon scholar and the father of English history. From the middle of the 19th century until 1935, Jarrow was a centre for shipbuilding, and was the starting point of the Jarrow March against unemployment in 1936.

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