Jarrow
a seaport of Durham, England; on the Tyne; 7 miles E. of Newcastle. Its growth from a small colliery village to the thriving town has been due to the construction of its docks (since 1859), and to the establishment of Palmer & Co.'s iron shipbuilding and marine engine works, blast furnaces, iron foundries, gun factory, etc. , which employ many thousands of 682 Benedict Biscop founded the Benedictine monastery with which the name of Bede is inseparably associated. Pop. (1918) 33,732.
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