Jarrow Bridge and St Pauls. Traditional Cache
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Jarrow Bridge and St Pauls.
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This little known artyfact once was the main access for St Pauls Church and Monistary..
Jarrow Bridge, recently renovated, and leads you no where.!!! It was built sometime around the 18th century and spans the River Don. It origonally had a long causway leading to it along the edge of Jarrow Slake. Jarrow Slake was where nere do wells met their fate on the Gibbet
Just north of the bridge is proberbly one of, if not the most important eclesiastical places in Great Britain. Dedicated on the 23 April AD 685 it is most proberbly one of a few church's still in use 1300 years on. This was the work place of one of Britains great historians, The Venreble Bede. Behind the church are the remains of the Benedictine monastery of the Middle Ages which was re-founded on the site of Bede's monastery.
You can walk freely around the grounds of the church and monastery, the church itself is open between 10am - 4.14pm Monday - Friday and 2pm - 4.15pm Sunday
Inside you can see the dedication stone and, I believe, Bede's chair.
200 yards north there is Bede's world, This complex consists of a New museum, an Anglo Saxon farm and Jarrow Hall. All combined to make a good Afternoon out.
Point to note!! the smell from the Don is quite aw inspiring Not!.. this is due to a paper mill being sited about 1/2 mile upstream, the mill is long gone but the legacy lingers on.. Phew!!!!!!!!
The cache is a 1/3 litre Screw top pot with usual trinkets etc.
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