Sunderland
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Sunderland is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England. It is a port at the mouth of the River Wear on the North Sea, approximately 10 miles (16 km) south-east of Newcastle upon Tyne. The built-up area had a population of 168,277 at the 2021 census, making it the second largest settlement in North East England after Newcastle. It is the administrative centre of the metropolitan borough of the same name.
Image: Sunderland Bridges
Image: Sunderland stadium of light
Image: St. Peter's Campus
Image: Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens from Mowbray Park, 7th May 2002. geograph.org.uk 136929
Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey
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The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Monkwearmouth–Jarrow, known simply as Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey, was a Benedictine double monastery in the Kingdom of Northumbria, England.
St Peter's Monkwearmouth. View showing the Saxon tower which was built from late 7th to the 10th century.
Monastery remains at Jarrow in front of St Paul's Church
An illumination of Christ in Majesty, surrounded by the Four Evangelists, at the start of the New Testament in the Codex Amiatinus written at Monkwearmouth-Jarrow
A page of the Saint Petersburg Bede written at Monkwearmouth-Jarrow. National Library of Russia, St Petersburg.