DOVER KENT ARCHIVES
PUB LIST   PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1458-

Chequers

Latest 1675

9 Church Street,

St. Mary's

(Sandwich)

 

Doing business in 1458. (Became the King's Head in 1675)

 

The name Chequers, usually indicated a meeting place for bankers and merchants, because they used a board or cloth marked out similar to a chess board, to reckon up their accounts.

 

Further information hopefully to follow.

 

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