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.

Jarrow ( or ) is a town in Tyne and Wear, England, located on the River Tyne, with a population of 27, 526.

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 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.

In 1974, Alan Price's " Jarrow Song " reached number one in the old RNI International Service, and number 4 in the UK charts, which brought to the attention once again of the Jarrow March.

His life and work have been celebrated by a series of annual scholarly lectures at St. Paul's Church, Jarrow from 1958 to the present.

In 1936, by which time unemployment was lower, 200 unemployed men made a highly publicized march from Jarrow to London in a bid to show the plight of the industrial poor.

In 1083 he expelled the married clergy from the cathedral, and moved a small community of monks from Bede's old monastery at Jarrow to Durham, to form the new chapter.

This community had been founded at Jarrow by Reinfrid, a Norman ex-knight and monk of Evesham Abbey, and Eadwine, an English monk from Winchcombe Abbey.

Symeon sought furthermore to justify William of Saint-Calais's expulsion of Durham's clerical community in 1083, in order to replace it with a group of Benedictine monks drawn from Wearmouth and Jarrow.

The name " Yarrow " may derive from the Celtic word garw meaning " rough " or possibly share a derivation with the English name " Jarrow ".

Historically within County Durham, 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.

As from 1935, Olympic, the sister ship of RMS Titanic, was partially demolished at Jarrow, being towed in 1937 to Inverkeithing, Scotland for final scrapping.

A series of views taken from Jarrow block across the college grounds between Autumn 1979 and Summer 1980

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

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.

In 2011, the Socialist Party gave prominent support to the Jarrow March for Jobs, a 330-mile march from Jarrow in South Tyneside to London to highlight youth unemployment, supported by several MPs, eight trade unions and the Daily Mirror newspaper.

The Socialist Party's first issue of 2010, headlined " Rage Against Unemployment " and written by Youth Fight for Jobs national organiser Sean Figg, who took part in the Jarrow March for Jobs, argues that young people are likely to suffer ' permanent psychological scars ' from unemployment.

The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the County Borough of South Shields along with the municipal borough of Jarrow and the urban districts of Boldon and Hebburn from County Durham.

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.

Other riverside towns are Jarrow and Hebburn, while the villages of Cleadon, Whitburn and The Boldons border the South Tyneside green belt which borders Wearside to the south at Sunderland.

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.

The Boldons are a group of three small villages in the North East of England-East Boldon, West Boldon and Boldon Colliery-bordering the north of Sunderland and the south of South Shields and Jarrow.

Monkwearmouth's sister monastery at Jarrow was founded by Ceolfrith in 682, and Bede probably transferred to Jarrow with Ceolfrith that year.

In the monastic library at Jarrow were a number of books by theologians, including works by Basil, Cassian, John Chrysostom, Isidore of Seville, Origen, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, Jerome, Pope Gregory I, Ambrose of Milan, Cassiodorus, and Cyprian.

Although much romanticized by the Left, the Jarrow Crusade marked a deep split in the Labour Party and resulted in no government action.

Jarrow's needs for secondary education are currently served by Jarrow School, formerly Springfield Comprehensive.

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 War Roll Researched by Vin Mullen

Despite the efforts of industrialist and Member of Parliament Sir John Jarvis, by September 1935, Jarrow had lost most of its heavy industry, and unemployment stood at 72. 9 %