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aerial photograph of St Paul's Monastery, Jarrow. The monastery at Jarrow was established in the 7th century around 681 AD and was twinned with St Peters at Monkwearmouth. The twin monasteries were home to St Bede ( the Venerable Bede ) who wrote the Ecclesiastical History of the English People. The monasteries were attached by Vikings in the 8th century and abandoned between the 9th and 11th centuries. It was finally dissolved in 1537 by Henry VIII and today lies mainly in ruins except for the church which survived as the parish church.
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