There appears to be some debate as to whether the public house name ‘Chequers’ is of Roman origin, with a checker-board pattern signifying a place that also provided banking services, is derived from the game checkers (draughts) played on such a board or the name of the friut of this tree (which one reference I’ve found says has in the past been used to flavour beer).

At any rate, here’s an old (closed) pub called the ‘The Chequers’, not far from Lesnes Abbey Woods, on Picardy Rd., Belvedere ….