71 UK Pubs Called Chequers
The ChequersBromley
The ChequersCambridge (Cottenham)
The ChequersEly (Sutton)
The ChequersGrantham (Woolsthorpe by Belvoir)
The Chequers InnHigh Wycombe (Wooburn Green)
The ChequersIpswich (Gt Blakenham)
The ChequersLuton
The ChequersLuton (Caddington)
The Chequers InnPoole (Lytchett Matravers)
The ChequersSandy (Wrestlingworth)
The New ChequersWorcester
The Old Chequers InnWorcester (Crowle)
The Chequers InnYork (Bilton-in-Ainsty)Aylesbury (Weston Turville)
Bath (Abbey)
Battle
Bedford (Westoning)
Bedford (Millbrook)
Bedford (Wootton)
Bicester (Weston on the Green)
Billericay
Bishops Stortford (Ugley)
Brentwood
Chipping Norton
Colchester (Great Tey)
Dalton-in-Furness
Dartford (Darenth)
Dartford (Farningham)
Dronfield (Coal Aston)
Dunmow (Great Dunmow)
Dunmow (Felsted)
Dunstable
Ely (Fordham)
Grantham (Woolsthorpe by Belvoir)
Harlow (Old Harlow)
Harlow (Matching Green)
Haywards Heath (Slaugham)
Hemel Hempstead
Hook (Eversley Cross)
Kings Lynn (Wimbotsham)
Leominster
Luton (Streatley)
Lutterworth (Swinford)
Lutterworth
Maidstone (Loose)
Marlow
Milton Keynes (Bletchley)
Newport Pagnell (North Crawley)
Northampton (Ravensthorpe)
Nottingham (Cropwell Bishop)
Oxford
Reading (Woodley)
Retford (Ranby)
Rotherham
Royal Tunbridge Wells (Lamberhurst)
Royston (Fowlmere)
Royston (Orwell)
Sandy (Little Gransden)
Saxmundham (Friston)
Spalding (Gedney Dyke)
Spalding
St Albans (Redbourn)
Stevenage
Stourbridge
Tadworth (Walton on the Hill)
Thatcham
Ventnor (Rookley)
Wallingford
Witham (Wickham Bishops)
Witney (Cassington)
Origins of "Chequers" as a Pub Name
There are two likely origins of Chequers - the first is a throwback to ancient Rome when a chequered board sign indicated that a bar also provided banking services. The chequered board also made its way onto several coats of arms and may be associated with the local gentry. Secondly, the Wild Service Tree Sorbus Torminalis (otherwise known as the Chequer Tree) was used to flavour beer before hops were used instead.
What's a Canonical Name?
To simplify searches, each pub on our database has a Canonical Name - usually a shortened version of its full name missing out any common prefixes and suffixes like "The Old", "Inn", "Tavern" and so on.
This means that "The Old Crown", "The Crown Inn" and "Ye Olde Crown Taverne" are known canonically as, simply, "Crown".
We've also dropped the "The", standarised with "and" instead of "&" and in some cases simplified pluralisation.
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