The Chequers, Fowlmere
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The Chequers, Fowlmere
Image: © Keith Edkins Taken: 14 May 2008
Late C15 or early C16 with C17 additions. Inscription below jetty 'ANO DOM 1675 WT'. Timber-framed and plastered with tarred brick plinth, C20 plain tiled roofs. Samuel Pepys stayed at the inn in 1660. Grade II listed. http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=5&uid=52938 Pepys wrote "Then up again and as far as Foulmer, within six miles of Cambridge, my mare being almost tired: here we lay at the Chequer, playing at cards till supper, which was a breast of veal roasted." (24 February 1659/60)
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Image Location
Latitude
52.093195
Longitude
0.073433