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Davison: This street has many excellent buildings It forms a part of the great north road and joins Bondgate Street The Bow burn which crosses it is an intolerable nuisance particularly in the winter season But as there is a sufficient descent a covered conduit considerably lower than the present watercourse might be made down the Bow lane or Bow alley and by continuing this conduit till it formed a junction with the common sewer in Pottergate Street the unsightly appearance and the inconvenience to the public would be removed.

Tate: Narrowgate — a narrow street, as its name imports — extends from Bondgate northwards, and is mentioned in 1290. In this are the Half Moon Inn, which is referred to in 1671, and a house into which is built an old De Vescy Cross. The Bow burn, now tunnelled over, was crossed by a bridge ; and at the northern extremity of the street was one of the defensive gates of the town. One house at least in it belongs to the manor of Stamford.

In 1842, Victorian heronine, Grace Darling came to convalesce with her cousins, the MacFarlanes, in their house in Narrowgate, when she became very ill with tuberculosis.