Jarrow

American  

[jar-oh] / ˈdʒær oʊ /

noun

1. a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, near the mouth of the Tyne River.

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Jarrow British  

/ ˈdʒærəʊ /

noun

1. a port in NE England, in South Tyneside unitary authority, Tyne and Wear: ruined monastery where the Venerable Bede lived and died; its unemployed marched on London in the 1930s; shipyards, oil installations, iron and steel works. Pop: 27 526 (2001)

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Example Sentences

Alison Quinn, also from Jarrow, says: "A lot of my friends have been anxious about things they have read online and I think this is really helpful."

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Kate Osborne, the Labour MP for Jarrow and Gateshead East, said she had been contacted by more than 700 people with "horror stories" about the level of student debt they had built up.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

Ms Huntley said Sir John was "such a generous and caring man who wanted to help the people of Jarrow after witnessing the great economic hardship and poverty they were experiencing".

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2023

Sporting youth leagues were set up and Sir John became the first president of Jarrow and Hebburn Athletic Club, which he donated the Jarvis Cup to.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2023

From boyhood he spent all his life in the monastery of Jarrow in religious exercises and in literary labours, that he undertook not for his own sake, but for the sake of others.

From The English Church in the Middle Ages by Hunt, William