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ST PETER’S Sunderland Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey mapping with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. (c) Crown Copyright. Under the licence of Gateshead Council. No. 100019132/2005 St Peter’s Church

With pristine golden beaches, picturesque villages, interesting Christian Heritage and rich maritime history, Sunderland and South Tyneside contain a wealth of places to visit and activities to do. Some of the attractions you may pass, or pass close by on Bede’s Way include:

ainlGasCnr iehd aueRsreBede's World National Glass Tilesheds Nature Reserve Centre National Glass Centre Tilesheds Local Nature Reserve Liberty Way, Sunderland. For further information contact T: 0191 515 5555 South Tyneside Council: www.nationalglasscentre.com T: 0191 424 7423 www.southtyneside.info This innovative and unique venture is This popular reserve is a great place to visit. Created in the early dedicated to promoting glass in all its 1990s with the local community, the reserve now has breeding uses; in design and technology and as mute swans, moorhens and coots. a vehicle for artistic expression. St Peter’s Monkwearmouth St Peter’s Way Station Museum Sunderland North Bridge Street, Sunderland Tyne and Wear T: 0191 567 7075 SR6 0DY Cycle Bede’s Way www.twmuseums.org.uk/monkwearmouth T: 0191 567 3726 Cycle Bede’s Way and enjoy This leaflet can be used to This splendid Victorian railway a great day out following the start the ride at either St station recreates a sense of rail route of seventh century pilgrims. Peter’s or St Paul’s churches travel in the past. and features an easy to use St Paul’s Bede’s Cycle Way has been map of Bede’s Cycle Way. Church Bank devised to link the Twin Anglo- Sunderland Museum Along the ride follow the Jarrow, Tyne and Wear Saxon monastery of St Peter’s & Winter Gardens Bede’s Way, Cycle Way and NE32 3DZ in Wearmouth and St Paul’s Burdon Road, Sunderland NCN 14 signs. in Jarrow, now a candidate T: 0191 533 2323 T: 0191 489 7052 World Heritage Site. Useful contacts and further www.twmuseums.org.uk/sunderland/ www.durham.anglican.org/ information have also been Exciting hands-on exhibits and parishes/jarrow Follow a safe and enjoyable included to help you discover interactive displays tell the story of route through the Great North other attractions along the way. Sunderland from its prehistoric past These are only a selection of places to visit in the area. For Forest, covering 13 miles of Cycling along Bede’s Way through to the present day. opening times and further information on other walking, cycling rich landscape, delightful routes, and places to visit please contact: seascape, rolling hills and Bede’s World meandering streams, combining Church Bank, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear both on and off road cycling. Sunderland Tourist Information Centre To explore our countryside, T: 0191 489 2106 50 Fawcett Street, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, SR1 1RF www.bedesworld.co.uk T: 0191 5532001, E: [email protected] coast and culture visit the The remarkable achievements of the Great North Forest. venerable Bede, early medieval Europe's South Shields Tourist Information Centre greatest scholar and namesake of this South Shields Museum and Art Gallery, route, are celebrated here through Ocean Road, South Shields, NE33 2HZ. exciting museum displays, special events T: 0191 454 6612, E: [email protected] and an Anglo-Saxon demonstration farm. www.greatnorthforest.co.uk Please note: details correct at time of going to print

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monastery of St Peter’s & St To St Paul's Church For leaflets and more info: Benedict Biscop, a Other productions of the Northumbrian noble, founded community during Bede’s Paul’s is bidding to become By cycle/walking Wearmouth-Jarrow the monastery of St Peter in lifetime included the Codex from Tyne Pedestrian Tunnel. Candidate World Heritage Site 674 and its twin house of St Amiatinus, a complete Bible a World Heritage Site. Cycle: follow the C2C route to St Pauls. T: 0191 489 2106 www.wearmouth-jarrow.org.uk Paul was begun eight years in a single volume, and a By Rail Great North Forest later. The two sites were landmark in the development from Newcastle Central Station Whickham Thorns, Market Lane, Dunston NE11 9NX regarded as one; Bede of European art. Arriva Trains Northern to Heworth Interchange, approx 3.5 miles T: 0191 460 6200 www.greatnorthforest.co.uk described them as ‘one www.wearmouth-jarrow.org.uk from start of route. monastery in two places’ and Wearmouth’s foundation was Bede’s World tells us that St Paul’s was the fulfilment of Benedict Church Bank, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear NE32 3DY ‘built on the understanding Biscop’s ideal to build in the To St Peter's Church T: 0191 489 2106 www.bedesworld.co.uk that the two houses should ‘Roman manner’, His desire By cycle/walking Traveline public transport info be bound together by the one to establish a perfect type of from St Peter's Metro T: 0870 608 2 608 north east. Minicom T: 0870 241 2216 spirit of peace and harmony’. religious community was Cycle: follow the C2C route from Sunderland Rail Station www.traveline.org.uk assisted by masons and Monks would have travelled glaziers from the Frankish By Rail Transport Partnership between the sites on foot or lands, and the bringing of from Newcastle Central Station www.twrtp.org by boat, possibly following relics, books, paintings, Arriva Trains Northern to Sunderland Railway Station and follow C2C route. For cycling route and info visit parts of this route between St teachers and ideas from Rome. www.sustrans.org.uk Paul’s along the River Don to St Peter’s on the River Wear. At both sites buildings of the Please note: folding bikes ONLY on Metro system Please be respectful late 7th century survive, both Please take all of your rubbish home with you, keep to the cycle Bede, (673 -735) was standing and excavated, Cycle Hire Facilities: path and respect other users. educated in the monastery together with stone sculptures St Paul’s Church Sunderland from the age of seven. His and a wide range of excavated Peter Darke Cycles, 1 William St, Sunderland Bede's Way is an attractive writing, particularly The Lives material that includes a T: 0191 510 8155 12 mile route. To explore of the Abbots of Wearmouth unique collection of coloured countryside, coast and and Jarrow and The glass. The buildings of the Cycle World Ecclesiastical History of the twin monastery were amongst culture; pick up a leaflet 222 High St West, Sunderland English People give a unique the first stone buildings in Follow the waymarkers and enjoy a great day out T: 0191 565 8188 / 0191 514 1974 insight into life in the Anglo-Saxon Northumbria, in the Great North Forest. monastery of Wearmouth- and St Paul’s contains the for a great day out. South Tyneside Jarrow in the late 7th and oldest church dedication South Tyneside Council offers cycle hire, subject to availability, early 8th centuries. stone in England. during the summer months: Walkway Tent Store, Sea Road, South Shields NE33 2DT Bede was the most important This combination of rare T: 0191 455 6313 European scholar of his age. medieval standing fabric with He is most famous now as the one of the most influential founder of medieval historical figures of contemporary writing and first historian of culture makes the twin the English, but also made monastery of Wearmouth lasting influential - Jarrow a site of world contributions in poetry, importance. astronomy, mathematics and the reckoning of time. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure accuracy no liability can be accepted for any Whitburn Bay Photograph ©AirFotos errors or omissions herein. All information is accurate at time of going to print, April 2005.