Bede's World provides an insight into South Tyneside as the cradle of Christianity 1300 years ago. The Venerable Bede (673 -735), medieval Europe's greatest scholar lived in Jarrow and his writings have cast the brightest light on England's Dark Ages.

The story of his important and remarkable life is beautifully chronicled at Bede's World, a most impressive, award winning museum, which skillfully blends excavated relics with modern presentation techniques in the very place where the "Father of English History" lived and worked. An 11 acre working Anglo-Saxon farm is imaginatively recreated using traditional tools and techniques and you can marvel at the ancient parish church of St. Paul's.

The twin monasteries of St Paul's, in Jarrow, and St Peter's, in Wearmouth, are bidding to become a World Heritage Site - an accolade shared by the Taj Mahal, the Pyramids and the Great Wall of China, along with places in Britain already on the UNESCO list such as Hadrian's Wall and Durham Castle & Cathedral. To find out more about the bid, which will highlight Wearmouth-Jarrow's outstanding influence on learning, the European identity and as the home of the Venerable Bede, see www.wearmouth-jarrow.org.uk