So goes the gag. But in reality, the Jubilee line station and the wider area take their name from a pub: Ye Olde Swiss Cottage*. That pub is now closed, after almost 200 years trading from the site.

An historic north-west London pub which a Tube station and the surrounding area was named after has called time after nearly two centuries in business. Campaigners are hoping Ye Olde Swiss Cottage ...

Known as the oldest and best-loved pub in York, Ye Olde Starre Inne is notorious for ... as a makeshift hospital and morgue during the English Civil War, and it's said that the screams of dying ...

Take a leisurely walk down Castle Street in Edgeley and inquire about the pub opposite Stockport Railway Station. You'll find that opinions vary greatly. This is because Ye Olde Vic, located just ...

Councillors are battling to save a historic pub that closed in a "shocking and confusing" way from future development. Ye Olde Swiss Cottage pub in Finchley Road, Swiss Cottage, was closed on ...

See if we've included your local. Quite possibly London's most famous pub. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese has been around since the days of Pepys and Wren, nourishing such luminaries as Samuel Johnson ...