YAR, or Yare (The), a river of Norfolk; rising near Shipdham, and running tortuously eastward, past Barford Norwich, Brundall, and Reedham, to the sea at Yarmouth. It has a total course of about 50 miles; it is joined by the Wensum at Norwich, and by the Waveney 3 miles below Reedham; it expands, at the influx of the Waveney, into Breydon water, on to the vicinity of Yarmouth; and it is joined, at the efflux thence, by the Bure.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))