Jarrow

Jarrow is famous as the place where the Venerable Bede wrote his 'Ecclestiastical History of the English People'.

Jarrow was repeatedly raided by the Vikings between 789 and 833. In 794 the Anglo Saxon Chronicles detail a sequence of events that ended with the destruction of a large part of a Viking raiding fleet. The Vikings had sacked the monastery of Ecgfrith at Jarrow. As they made to leave a large storm blew up, sinking many ships and drowning large numbers of raiders. Those that made it to the shore were killed by the Saxons.