Swiss Cottage

While riding along on Bus 31 yesterday... on our way home from Chalk Farm area we were riding through Swiss Cottage at one point and wondered how it got it's name... I thought it had to do something with a war, but I was wrong...

The district is named after an inn called The Swiss Tavern that was built in 1804 in the style of a Swiss chalet and on the site of a former tollgate keeper's cottage. The inn was later renamed Swiss Cottage

Per wikipedia here is a picture of the original "Swiss Cottage"

per wikipedia... The original Swiss Cottage...


P.S. Did you know The Great Eastern Hotel has a secret train platform that was used to transport fresh sea water from the coast into the spa pools?