He is referring to the twinned monasteries of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, near modern-day Newcastle, claimed as his birthplace, there is also a tradition that he was born at Monkton, two miles from the monastery at Jarrow.

Bede may also have worked on one of the Latin bibles that were copied at Jarrow, one of which is now held by the Laurentian Library in Florence.

* Jarrow Priory is established by Benedict Biscop in the Kingdom of Northumbria.

The Angles re-occupied a 1st century Roman fort on the site of Jarrow in the 5th century Its name is recorded around AD 750 as Gyruum, representing Old English Gyrwum = " the marsh dwellers ", from Anglo-Saxon gyr = " mud ", " marsh ".

Today Jarrow residents ' popular nickname for Jarrow is " Jarra ".

The closure of the shipyard was responsible for one of the events for which Jarrow is best known.

Jarrow is marked in history as the starting point in 1936 of the Jarrow March to London to protest against unemployment in Britain.

Some doubt has been cast by historians as to how effective events such as the Jarrow March actually were but there is some evidence that they stimulated interest in regenerating ' distressed areas '.

Jarrow is reached from the south by the A1 ( M ) via the A194, and is connected to North Tyneside and Northumberland via the Tyne Tunnel.

Jarrow is served by three stations on the Tyne and Wear Metro: Jarrow station in the centre of the town ( on the Yellow line ) Bede station in the Bede industrial estate ( also on the Yellow line ), and Fellgate station ( on the Green line ) to the south.

Jarrow is twinned with the following towns, under the umbrella of the South Tyneside town-twinning project which saw individual twinning projects brought together in 1974:

The Jarrow March is fondly remembered by those on the left in British politics as a landmark in the history of labour movement, even though the Labour Party of the day opposed it, and the Trades Union Congress circularised Trades Councils advising them not to help the marchers.

In the Anglican churches, the term applies to a bishop who is an assistant to a diocesan bishop, for example, the Bishop of Jarrow is a suffragan to the Bishop of Durham ( the diocesan ).

South Tyneside is represented by two Members of Parliament with two constituencies at South Shields and Jarrow ( which also serves Hebburn and the Urban Fringe villages ).

Bede's World in Jarrow ( Anglo Saxon ' Gyrwe ') is dedicated to the life of the Venerable Bede, the ' Father of English History '.

There is a medieval monastery ( St. Paul's Church, AD 681 ), an Anglo-Saxon farm with rare breed animals and buildings constructed in original materials from that period, and the Georgian Jarrow Hall.

Jarrow remained a small town until the introduction of heavy industries like coal mining and shipbuilding.

Famous former residents of the town, including Ellen Wilkinson MP, Charles Mark Palmer and William Jobling, have been remembered in the names of beers produced by Jarrow Brewing Company, a microbrewery in the town.

Jarrow town centre in 2005

The town that was murdered: Depicting in brief the history and demise of Jarrow ( 1939 )

Completed in 1967 and 2011 respectively, they connect the town of Jarrow on the south bank of the river with North Shields and Howdon on the north.

The 207 marchers travelled from the town of Jarrow to the Palace of Westminster in London, a distance of almost, to lobby Parliament.

Jarrow was a small industrial town on the mouth of the River Tyne, situated six miles east of the city of Newcastle.

The original petition, which demanded government aid for the town of Jarrow, signed by 11, 000 people from Jarrow, was carried in an oak box, whilst supporters of the March could add to an additional petition.

On the evening of 5 October 1936 the Jarrow marchers stopped at the town centre after their first day's walk.

In the 1935 General Election, Wilkinson re-entered Parliament as MP for Jarrow, " the town that was murdered ", having one of the worst unemployment records in Britain, with nearly 80 % of the insured population out of work.

Stagecoach in South Shields operates mostly local services within South Shields, however services linking the town to Jarrow, Sunderland, Gateshead and Newcastle are also operated.

Bede's World, the Tyne Pedestrian Tunnel, the refurbished Viking Shopping Centre, and J Barbour factory outlet at Jarrow are also of interest.

The Tyne Road and Pedestrian Tunnels traverse the river between Jarrow and Howdon.

Metro consists of two lines, the Green Line, which runs between Newcastle Airport and South Hylton via Newcastle upon Tyne city centre, Gateshead and Sunderland and the Yellow Line, which runs between St James and South Shields via North Shields, Tynemouth, Whitley Bay, then looping back on itself and going south via the city centre, Gateshead and Jarrow.

Stephen Hepburn was born in Jarrow, Tyneside, the son of a shipyard worker, and educated at the Springfield Comprehensive School, Jarrow ( now Jarrow School ) and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree.

The Newcastle and Gateshead Chamber of Commerce arranged a river trip on the Tyne, taking in the New Tyne Bridge, the Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Company Hebburn and the Jarrow Chemical Works.

John Miles ( born John Errington, 23 April 1949, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear, England ) is an English rock music vocalist, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player, best known for his 1976 Top 3 UK hit single, " Music ".

The Tyne and Wear valley was dotted with monasteries, with those at Monkwearmouth, Hexham and Jarrow being the most famous.

* Jarrow Bus Station, Jarrow, Tyne and Wear-' Jarrow ' ( Merged with South Shields )

He then purchased iron mines in Yorkshire and erected large shipbuilding yards along the Tyne at Jarrow, including blast-furnaces, steel-works, rolling-mills and engine works, all on a massive scale.

Peter Flannery ( born 12 October 1951, Jarrow, Tyne and Wear ) is a British playwright and screenwriter.

* May 25, 1812 – Felling mine disaster: A mine explosion at the Felling colliery near Jarrow, England leaves 96 dead.

* May 25 – Felling mine disaster: A mine explosion at the Felling colliery near Jarrow, England leaves 96 dead.

In 794 Jarrow became the second target in England of the Vikings, who had plundered Lindisfarne in 793.

The Jarrow March ( or Jarrow Crusade, from the phrase on banners carried by the marchers ), was an October 1936 protest march against unemployment and extreme poverty suffered in North East England during the Great Depression.

The Great Depression devastated the industrial areas of Northern England, Wales and Central Scotland, and the Jarrow March of unemployed workers from the North East to London to demand jobs defined the period.

Twinned with Jarrow, England ; 1956.

Plater was born in Jarrow, England, although his family moved to Hull in 1938.

Michael Winter was born in 1965 in Jarrow, England.

Bede's World is a museum in Jarrow dedicated to the life and times of Venerable Bede, a monk, author and scholar who lived in at the Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Wearmouth-Jarrow, a double monastery at Jarrow ( today part of South Tyneside ) and Monkwearmouth, ( today part of Sunderland ), England.

* James Gordon ( bishop of Jarrow ) ( 1881 – 1938 ), Bishop of Jarrow in the Church of England

During its history, it gained control in England of the Metropolitan Electric and South Metropolitan systems in London, as well as systems in Barsley, Barrow-in-Furness, Birmingham, Birmingham and Midland, Brighton and Shoreham, Cambridge, Devonport and District, Dudley and Stourbridge, Gateshead, Gravesend, Great Yarmouth, Hartlepool, Jarrow, Kidderminster and Stourport, Leamington and Warwick, Middleton, Oldham Ashton and Hyde, Peterborough, Poole, the Potteries, Rossendale Valley, Sheerness, South Staffordshire, Southport, South Shields, Taunton, Tynemouth, Weston-Super-Mare, Wolverhapton District, Worcester and Yorkshire ( Woollen District ).

Common played for South Hylton and Jarrow in North East England before joining Sunderland in 1900.

Her works have been exhibited in numerous museums, including the Bede Gallery, Jarrow, England, the Woodspring Museum, Weston-super-Mare, England, the Camden Arts Center, London, the Haworth Art Gallery, London, and at the White House in Washington, D. C.