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  • |picture caption=The Wearmouth Bridge ...the river, [[Monkwearmouth]] was settled in 674 when Benedict founded the Wearmouth-Jarrow monastery. Opposite the monastery on the south bank, [[Bishopwearmou
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  • ...nd protects its county town, [[Durham]], and enters the [[North Sea]] at [[Wearmouth]] near [[Sunderland]]. ...ough the Wear Valley to the [[North Sea]] where it flows out to the sea at Wearmouth, by [[Monkwearmouth]]. The Wear is the longest river in England with a cou
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  • ...rst abbot until his death, combining this position with that of missionary bishop to the [[Kingdom of the East Saxons; [[Essex]]. In 664, shortly after the S ...standards is that, in 687, one of its graduates, Trumbert, transferred to Wearmouth-Jarrow and became scriptural tutor to a youthful Bede.<ref>Bede: ''Historia
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  • *[[Bishop Wearmouth]]
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  • ...ttlement was formed in 930 when King Æthelstan granted the lands to the [[Bishop of Durham]]. The settlement on the opposite side of the river, [[Monkwearmo ...outh side of the river became known as Bishopwearmouth or sometimes "South Wearmouth", a parish covering around 20 square miles. The land consisted of a number
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