Jarrow

South Tyneside is a borough in in northeast England, with a population in 2021 of 148,000. It's a series of towns that have been industrial since the Middle Ages, and that historically lay in County Durham.
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  • Type: Town with 27,300 residents
  • Description: town in north-east England, located on the River Tyne
  • Also known as: Jarrow-on-Tyne

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jarrow Town Hall and Christ Church.

Town hall
is a municipal building in Grange Road, Jarrow, , England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Jarrow Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.

Railway station
is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the town of , in , England. It joined the network on 24 March 1984, following the opening of the fifth phase of the network, between Heworth and South Shields.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hebburn and Primrose.

Town
is a town in the borough of , England. It was an urban district in from 1894 to 1974. It is on the south bank of the River Tyne between and Jarrow and opposite and .

Suburb
is a suburb.

Suburb
is an area in South Tyneside, part of South Shields, with a postcode of NE32 It is served by . The name originates from a farm which was located about 400 metres East, in what is now the Biddick Hall Estate. is situated 2 miles southeast of Jarrow.

Jarrow

Latitude
54.98125° or 54° 58′ 53″ north
Longitude
-1.49085° or 1° 29′ 27″ west
Population
27,300
Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB JAR
Open location code
9C6WXGJ5+GM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27159433
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2645972
Wiki­data ID
Q782155
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Jarrow” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: جارو
  • Armenian: Ջարոու
  • Asturian: Jarrow
  • Basque: Jarrow
  • Belarusian: Джараў
  • Bengali: জ্যারো
  • Cebuano: Jarrow
  • Chinese: 賈羅
  • Chinese: 贾罗
  • Chinese: 雅羅
  • Croatian: Jarrow
  • Czech: Jarrow
  • Dutch: Jarrow
  • Esperanto: Jarrow
  • French: Jarrow
  • Galician: Jarrow
  • German: Jarrow
  • Greek: Τζάροου
  • Gujarati: ઝેરો
  • Hebrew: ג’ארוו
  • Hebrew: ג’רו
  • Hungarian: Jarrow
  • Irish: Jarrow
  • Italian: Jarrow
  • Japanese: ジャロー
  • Japanese: ジャロウ
  • Kannada: ಜಾರ್ವೊ
  • Korean: 재로우
  • Ladin: Jarrow
  • Latin: Gyruum
  • Lithuanian: Džarou
  • Luxembourgish: Jarrow
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Jarrow
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Jarrow
  • Norwegian: Jarrow
  • Persian: جارو، تاین و ور
  • Polish: Jarrow
  • Portuguese: Jarrow
  • Romanian: Jarrow
  • Russian: Джарроу
  • Serbo-Croatian: Jarrow
  • Slovenian: Jarrow
  • South Azerbaijani: جارو، تاین و ور
  • Spanish: Jarrow
  • Swedish: Jarrow
  • Tamil: ஜார்ரோ
  • Telugu: జారో
  • Turkish: Jarrow
  • Ukrainian: Джарроу
  • Urdu: جاروو
  • Welsh: Jarrow
  • Western Frisian: Jarrow

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Jarrow”. Photo: Mark Smiles, CC BY-SA 2.0.