JARROW  , a

port and municipal borough in the Jarrow parliamentary division of Durham, England, on the right bank of the Tyne, 62 m. below Newcastle, and on a branch of the North-Eastern railway . Pop . (1901), 34,295 . The parish church of St Paul was founded in 685, and retains portions of pre-Norman work . The central tower is Norman, and there are good Decorated and Perpendicular details in the body of the church . Close by are the scattered ruins of the monastery begun by the pious Biscop in 681, and consecrated with the church by Ceolfrid in 685 . Within the walls of this monastery the Venerable Bede spent his life from childhood; and his body was at first buried within the church, whither, until it was removed under Edward the Confessor to Durham, it attracted many pilgrims . The town is wholly industrial, devoted to ship-building, chemical works, paper mills and the neighbouring collieries . It owes its development from a mere pit village very largely to the enterprise of Sir Charles Mark Palmer (q.v.) . Jarrow Slake, a river bay, 1 m. long by z m. broad, contains the Tyne docks of the North-Eastern railway company . A great quantity of coal is shipped . Jarrow was incorporated in 1875, and the corporation consists of a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors .

Area, 783 acres .