Kentish Gazette, 20 January, 1792.

To be sold by private contract.

A Good Freehold and well-known public house called the "Chequers," at Higham, in the county of Kent, with large garden and hot-house, green house, barn, stable, back yard, a large fore-yard convenient to build on, with a Tenement adjoining, let to Mr. Stephen Knight, at the yearly rent of £5 a year; lying 3 miles from Rochester, 5 miles from Gravesend, being the leading road out of all the hundred to Gravesend.

To be entered on at Lady-day next, 1792.

Apply to Thomas French, the owner, for further particulars.

East Kent Gazette, Saturday 23 September 1922.

Veteran Kent Licensed Victuallers.

Mr. Walter George, of the "Red Lion," Badlesmere, Faversham, has been established there for nearly 50 years, being first granted the licence in November, 1872. His father was a licensed victualler before him at Selling. ("White Lion") Another Kent licensed victualler of long-standing is Mr. Alfred Goord, who has been holder of the licence for the "Chequers Inn," Higham, for 47 years.