Changing land...
You can stand today on the spot where Bede and his brothers stood…and despite centuries of change, you can still see parts of the landscape he knew. Bede describes the two houses as deliberately being founded near to the mouths of the two major rivers, the Tyne and the Wear. Although the conurbations of Sunderland, Jarrow, and their neighbours have sprung up on what was once the monastery's estate, and the rivers themselves have changed through dredging, deepening to allow modern ships to navigate them, civil engineering to create docks, wharves, and more besides, you can still appreciate the relationship of the rivers to the setting of Benedict Biscop's monastery.
