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 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.

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.

* 25px Épinay-sur-Seine in France, originally twinned with Jarrow in June 1965.

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

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 ".

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.

A boomtown, Jarrow prospered at the start of the 20th century with Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, which had been established in Jarrow in the mid-19th century, providing the main source of employment.

The National Unemployed Workers ' Movement had organised several similar marches before the Jarrow March, but they received little political support due to the NUWM's links with the Communist Party.

When the Jarrow Borough Council organised the protest in July 1936, they named it a ' walk ' rather than a march, partly to make it clear their protest was not affiliated with the NUWM — in the hope of gaining more support.

The marchers generally received sympathy, though no proposal was made to help Jarrow, despite the petition being accepted in the House of Commons — with a single simple sentence of announcement, after which the House of Commons went back to their previous business.

The Jarrow march featured prominently at the Socialist Party's Socialism 2011 weekend event in November 2011, which coincided with the marchers ' arrival in London.

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.

Twinned with Jarrow, England ; 1956.

In 1074 Waltheof II, Earl of Northumbria, last of the Anglo-Saxon earls, granted the church to the monks of Jarrow together with the body of St Oswin ( Oswine of Deira ), which was transferred to that site for a while.

There is a working reconstructed Anglo-Saxon farm called Gyrwe ( pronounced ' Yeerweh ') after the Old English name for Jarrow, showing animal husbandry with full-size reconstructions of 3 timber buildings from Northumbria based on the evidence of archaeological work.

Other site features are the a café located in Jarrow Hall, an 18th Century Georgian property adjacent to the museum, the Medieval herb garden situated at the rear of Jarrow Hall with over 200 species of herbs, and a gift shop situated within the museum.

The Trust purchased Bradford's Victoria Swan Arcade in 1954 with the intention of demolishing it and developing a new shopping centre, but it took eight years before leases expired and building work could commence, so in the meantime it developed a site in Jarrow, South Tyneside, which became the first Arndale Centre when it opened in 1961.

This institute had left Egfrith so enamoured that soon after the completion of the Wearmouth Monastery, he granted Biscop another segment of land for the construction of a second monastery, Jarrow, with the intention that the two should be administered as one.

While still a pupil at Jarrow Grammar School, Miles was a member of a local band called The Influence, which also included Paul Thompson, later drummer with Roxy Music ; and Vic Malcolm, later lead guitarist with Geordie.

Kevin Maguire, associate editor of the Mirror, spoke at the Jarrow launch rally, following the Socialist Party's Coventry councillor Dave Nellist, as featured on a number of Socialist Party videos about the event.

He was elected to the British House of Commons for Jarrow following Dixon's retirement at the 1997 General Election.

Among the worst affected towns was Jarrow, where unemployment led to the famous Jarrow March, in which unemployed workers marched to London to protest against unemployment.

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.

It is part of the metropolitan borough of South Tyneside, which includes the riverside towns of Jarrow and Hebburn and the villages of Boldon, Cleadon and Whitburn.

An inscription from Jarrow and commemorative coins issued in 119 attest to his supposed success although a reference by the orator Fronto to many soldiers being killed in Britannia under Hadrian's rule has been suggested as indicating that the victory was hard-won.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Following boundary changes taking effect at the 2010 general election, the constituency consists of part of the metropolitan district of South Tyneside, including the settlements of Jarrow, Boldon, Cleadon and Hebburn, as well as two wards from the adjacent Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, covering Pelaw and Wardley.

Boundary changes at the 2010 general election have transferred the community of Whitburn into the South Shields constituency from the neighbouring Jarrow seat.

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.

Born in South Shields, Montgomery was educated at Jarrow Grammar School and the University of Durham, and became a teacher in 1950.

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

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.