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Tyne and Wear. 54°58′53″N01°29′24″W / 54.98139°N 1.49000°W. Jarrow (/ ˈdʒæroʊ / or / ˈdʒærə /) 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 3 miles (4.8 km) from the east coast.
Jarrow, North Sea port town and urban area (from 2011 built-up area), South Tyneside metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, historic county of Durham, northeastern England. It lies along the south bank of the River Tyne. Jarrow’s St. Paul’s Church (dedicated 685 ce) is situated.
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The monastery at Jarrow was one of Europe's most influential centres of learning and culture in the 7th century. The remains standing today are from the medieval monastery, but part of the Anglo-Saxon monastery survives today as the chancel of St Paul's Church.
Jarrow was the place where Bede shone as a light of learning in an otherwise dark period of history – an era about which we would know much less if it were not for Bede. His legacy was felt throughout Europe. In the ninth a century, a monk in far away Switzerland neatly summed up Bede’s influential status when he wrote:
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