Jarrow

Jarrow is a town on the south bank of the River Tyne in north-east England. Its monastery of St Paul, founded by Benedict Biscop in the early 680s and joined with Wearmouth, was a centre of Northumbrian learning where Bede lived and wrote, and the dedication stone of its church, dated 685, survives. In modern times Jarrow was a shipbuilding town, and the Jarrow March of 1936 against unemployment became a symbol of the Depression.