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Some of the Rows have ROW NAMEPLATES these are marked with a*

  1. Rampart Row(the longest of the Rows)
  2. Black Horse Row,Bird in Hand Row.
  3. Boultor’s the Baker’s Row,Doughty's Row
  4. Thornton the Grocer or Ecclestone the Grocer’s Row,,Wiltshire Arms Row
  5. Burman's Row,Chapman's Row,Split Gutter Row(one open gutter running down the centre divided into two halfway along it's length)
  6. Wigg's Row,Chapman’s or Douglas’s Row,Body
    Snatcher's Row
  7. Golden Key's Row,White Horse Row
  8. Yew Tree Row,
  9. Bessey’s Half Row,
  10. Horn Row,North Row,Brown the Candlemaker's Row,
  11. Whitler the Baker’s Row.
  12. George & Dragon Row
  13. Garden Row,Lacon's Row,
  14. Goymour’s Meeting North Row,Baptist Meeting Row,Brett's Row.
  15. Goymour’s Meeting South Row,Jeffery's Row,Brett's South Row.
  16. Lacon’s Brewery Row
  17. Says Corner North Row
  18. Says Corner South Row
  19. Wrestlers Row
  20. Wrestlers Tap Row or Two Necked Swan Row,Steward's Chemist Row
  21. Fill the Auctioneer’s Row.
  22. Shuckforth Basketmaker’s Row.Barnes the Grocers Row
  23. Tooke the Baker’s Row,Traynier's FishHouse Row.
  24. Blue Anchor Row,Pickard's Row.
  25. Fighting Cock or Doughty the Leather Cutter’s Row,Coach and Horse Row.
  26. Half Moon Tap or Bee Hive Row,Lorimer the Grocer's Row,Wild the Baker's Row,Penny's Row
  27. Well Row or Doughty’s the Leather Cutter’s South Row
  28. Conge Row
  29. *Half Moon,Kings head North or Queens Head North Row,Davy the Watchmaker's Row
  30. Barnaby the Baker's Row
  31. Nine Parish Row
  32. *King’s Head Row, or Queen’s Head South Row
  33. Dr.Farmington's Row,Nightingale the Barber’s Row
  34. Quay Mill Row
  35. Harman’s Row,Globe Row.
  36. Neal the Shoemaker’s , Mouse the Pawnbroker’s Row.
  37. Glass House Row,Absolon's Row
  38. *Ferrier Row,Charles Moore's Row.
  39. Norman the Cabinet Maker’s Row.
  40. Wall the Linen Drapers or Taylor & Fulcher’s North Row
  41. Rose & Crown Row,King's Baker's Row
  42. Barnby the Liquor Merchant,Jew's Row.
  43. Dassett's Row,Moon the Cabinet Maker's Row
  44. *Angel Row,Markland's Row In Row 44,(Angel Row) Wednesday 23rd Febryuary 1898, Thirza Ann BENSLEY, better known as Maud Bensley, was murdered. She was well known to the Police. She lived with Samuel Steel but entertained other men. Samuel cut her throat with a razor and then tried to commit suicide himself. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. He would have been hanged but for the fact that he suffered epileptic fits and pleaded insanity.
  45. Woolsey's School Row,Singens Row.
  46. Nags Head or Sewell the Grocer’s Row
  47. White Swan Row,Golden Ball Row,Page the Pipemaker’s Row
  48. Wheat Sheaf Row,William the Fourth Row.
  49. *Blake the Linen Draper’s Row,Vine Row
  50. Symonds the Hairdresser’s Lane,Richmond the Cabinet Maker’s Row
  51. Lamb Row,Black Swan Row
  52. Buck or Dr.Costerton’s Row.
  53. *Turner’s Bank Row
  54. Almshouse Row
  55. Turner’s Bank South Row,Skill's Row,Clowe's Row.
  56. Exise Office Row,Savings Bank Row
  57. *Star & Garter or Mr. Brightwen’s Row,Sarah Martin's Row
  58. Elephant & Castle Row,Red House Row
  59. Woolhouse's Row,Crown & Anchor Row.
  60. *Oxford Row,Randall's Row,Ostend Market Row , Austin Row
  61. Popinjay Row.
  62. *Church's Row,Symond's Row,Homfrays or Ben Dowson’s Row
  63. *Quakers Row, 63 1/2 Post Office and Post office 1/2 Row
  64. Mew's Row,Bateman's Row,Pritchard's Row.
  65. Cups or Mariner’s Row, Dakin the Brazier's Row.
  66. Savings Bank Stamp Office or Girling’s Row
  67. Nicholas Cutting's Row,Star Tavern Row.
  68. Thomas Lucas Row.
  69. Rev.Welham's Row,Hurry's Row
  70. Craske the Baker’s Row,Male the Chemist's Row
  71. Cubitt the Painter’s Row
  72. Haynes The Peruke Maker's Row,Moore the Blacksmith’s Row
  73. Barker’s North,Cobbs North or Miller the Basket Maker’s Row
  74. Barker’s South or Cobb’s South,Peacock's Row or Aldred's Row
  75. Poppy's Row,Old Fountain North Row.
  76. Peer's Row,Cory’s Row.
  77. Coach and Horses Row,Three Feather's Row.
  78. Pot in hand North or Brown Grocer’s Row
  79. Pot in hand South or the Malster’s Row
  80. Worship the Attorney’s North Lane the Pawnbrokers or Miss Peterson’s Row
  81. Crome's Row,Meyrick's Row,Rumble the China Dealer's Row
  82. Worship the Attorney’s South or Baptist Meeting North.
  83. *J.D.Palmer Esqre. or Chrisi(?) Sayers the Attorney’s Row
  84. Ship Tavern Row
    Ship Tavern Row

    Ship Tavern Row 84

  85. Crown & Heart or Baptist Meeting South Row
  86. Fieldings Row
  87. Money Office Row
  88. Woodwards Row
  89. Old Hannah’s Back Row
  90. Old Hannah's Row Row 90 John HANNAH murdered his wife Elizabeth on Sept.6th 1813-he was hanged on Yarmouth Downs.
  91. Mews Half Row
    Greyfriars Row

    Greyfriars Row..Row 91 and a half!

    Greyfriars ruins

    Greyfriars Ruins
  92. Old Meeting(house?) Row
  93. Rivett the Baker King the Baker or Goddard the Whitesmith’s Row
  94. Penrice’s back Row
  95. Kitty Witches or Draper the Butcher’s Row Kitty Witches Row is the best known of all of the Rows. The West entrance is only 24 inches wide. Before the Rows were lit this Row was carefully avoided by children at night because of the tales told.

    kittywitches row

    Kitty Witches Row

A Kitty witch in Yarmouth was the term applied to women with blood smeared faces, who fantastically dressed, paraded town,demanding contributions at certain seasons of the year. Whether this was the reason for the name of the Row or whether it was because of the fact that a Christopher Wych once lived there is not really known.

  • Old Meeting South or Bush Tavern Row
  • Lawyer Bell’s or Nightingale the Confectioner’s Row
  • Urquahart's Row
  • *Castle Row
  • J.F.Costertons Esqre. or Sowoll’s the Painter’s Row
  • Victualling Office Penrice’s Stable or Charles Symonds Row
  • William’s or Bennett the Cooper’s Row
  • North Custom House or Saffery the Brewer’s Row
  • *Custom House South Row
  • Dr.Penrice’s or The Chapel Row
  • Gaol North Row,Three Cranes Row,Dutch Chapel Row,Palgrave's Row,Town House Row
  • Post House Row,Chapel Paved Row,St.Georges East Row
  • England's Row,Anthony Taylor's Row,St.George's Paved West Row,Free Library Row.
  • Lion & Lamb or Dr.Borrett’s Row
  • New Prison or Perry the Oatmeal maker’s Row
  • Lucas or Steward’s Row
  • Chambers’ the Sailmaker’s Row
    In 1934 on the corner of row 112, a marine store dealer called Horace Butcher was found with his head battered.He had been hit with a 7lb weight. It was suggested that the murder could have been carried out by a seaman but but the murder remains unsolved.
  • Errington’s Row
  • Lieut.White’s Row,Willis's Half Row
  • Nathaniel Fish's Row,Batchelor's Row
  • Thos.Hurry’s, Hasting’s the Pawnbroker’s or Plummer’s Row
  • Gallon Can or Matthew Ward’s Row
  • Blue Bell Row
  • Dove or Robinson the Grocer’s Row
  • Duncan’s Head or Humber keel Row
  • Huke the carpenter’s Row
  • Martin the Shoemaker’s Row
  • Dover Colby’s North Walls North or Fulcher the Pawnbroker’s Row
  • Dover Colby’s South Walls South Laws or Lamb the Butcher’s Row
  • Gun Row
  • Calver’s Row
  • Scott the Baker’s or Foundry Row
  • Garwood the Glazier’s Row.
  • Friends’Druids’ or Newcastle Tavern Row
  • Old White Lion Row
  • Beckett’s or Wolverton’s Row
  • Adams the Barber Presents the Butcher, or Dove Court Row
  • Lee the Pawnbroker’s Graves’ the Pieman or Spratt the Shoemaker’s Row
  • New White Lion Row
  • Old Prison Row
  • 3 Herrings or New Fountain Row
  • Horse & Cart Row
  • Dog & Duck Row
  • Pagett’s Row
    Pagett's Row

    Pagett's Row..Row 139
  • Pigeon Row
  • Child the Blacksmith’s Row,Nelson Tavern Row
  • Peacock or Mariner’s Compass Row
  • Grosse's Row,Maye The Baker's Row,Woodroffe the Grocer's Row,Pleasant the Grocer's Row,Morling the Grocer’s Row
  • Jones’s Neave’s or Thorndick’s Row
  • Fourteen Stars’Row

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