Jarrow
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Jarrow ( or ) is a town in South Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. Historically in County Durham, it is on the south bank of the River Tyne, about from the east coast. It is home to the southern portal of the Tyne Tunnel and east of Newcastle upon Tyne. At the 2021 census the Jarrow built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics had a population of 29,470.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- JARROW
- UK place.postcode_district
- NE32
- UK place.postcode_area
- NE
- UK place.dial_code
- 0191
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NZ332651
- UK place.official_name
- Jarrow
- UK place.type
- Town
- UK place.population
- 29,470
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Jarrow and Gateshead East
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- South Tyneside
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- Tyne and Wear
- UK place.region
- North East England
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- History
- Toponymy
- Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey
- 19th century to present
- Governance
- Administrative history
- Transport
- Education
- Demography
- Notable people
- In popular culture
- Twin towns
- References
- Notes
- Sources
- External links
Jarrow ( or ) is a town in South Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. Historically in County Durham, it is on the south bank of the River Tyne, about from the east coast. It is home to the southern portal of the Tyne Tunnel and east of Newcastle upon Tyne. At the 2021 census the Jarrow built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics had a population of 29,470.
In the eighth century, St Paul's Monastery 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. The town is part of the historic County Palatine of 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jarrow” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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