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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 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..Row 91 and a half!
    
    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.
    
    
    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.

Pagett�s Row

Pagett's Row..Row 139

Fourteen Stars�Row

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