Twin Towns
Jarrow is twinned with the following towns, under the umbrella of the South Tyneside town-twinning project which saw individual twinning projects brought together in 1974:
- Wuppertal in Germany, originally twinned with South Shields in 1951.
- Noisy-le-Sec in France, originally twinned with Hebburn in April 1963.
- Épinay-sur-Seine in France, originally twinned with Jarrow in June 1965.
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