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JARROW , a See also:port and municipal See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough in the Jarrow See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Durham, See also:England, on the right See also:bank of the See also:Tyne, 62 m. below See also:Newcastle, and on a See also:branch of the See also:North-Eastern railway. Pop. (1901), 34,295. The See also:parish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Paul was founded in 685, and retains portions of pre-See also:Norman See also:work. The central See also:tower is Norman, and there are See also:good Decorated and Perpendicular details in the See also:body of the church. See also: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 See also:- VENERABLE (Lat. venerabilis, worthy of reverence, venerari, to reverence, to worship, allied to Venus, love; the Indo-Germ. root is wen-, to desire, whence Eng. " win, properly to struggle for, hence to gain)
Venerable See also:Bede spent his See also:life from childhood; and his body was at first buried within the church, whither, until it was removed under See also:Edward the See also:Confessor to Durham, it attracted many pilgrims. The See also:town is wholly See also:industrial, devoted to See also:ship-See also:building, chemical See also:works, See also:paper See also:mills and the neighbouring collieries. It owes its development from a See also:mere See also:- PIT (O. E. pytt, cognate with Du. put, Ger. Pfutze, &c., all ultimately adaptations of Lat. puteus, well, formed from root pu-, to cleanse, whence gurus, clean, pure)
pit See also:village very largely to the enterprise of See also:Sir See also:Charles See also:Mark See also:Palmer (q.v.). Jarrow Slake, a See also:river See also:bay, 1 m. See also:long by z m. broad, contains the Tyne docks of the North-Eastern railway See also:company. A See also:great quantity of See also:coal is shipped. Jarrow was incorporated in 1875, and the See also:corporation consists of a See also:mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors. See also:Area, 783 acres.
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