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The Chequers was adjacent to the proposed route of the Spalding to Bourne railway, i.e. south of the eventual route.  The subsequent change of plans for the railway must have been a financial disaster for the pub. This pub has now been demolished. This railway connection goes some way to explaining why The Chequers was built in an off-road location with no proper driveway [approx 300 yards from a road] in an otherwise open field. Access was by walking along the riverbank. The last landlord was Edward Goodman, and It closed as a pub in 1934. Then sold by the brewery (Mowbray of Grantham) to Charles Freestone, but subsequently demolished a short time after. Publicans include William Fisher in 1861, William Gibbons in 1871, in 1881 Mrs Sarah Gibbons.

Source: Andy Clark

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