18 + Highgate N6

Escorts in Highgate, N6: the trip out from town, agreed in writing

"Come up for the shops and stay for the evening," Sylvie tells anyone who knows Highgate only as a name on the Northern line, and she means the old High Street on top of the hill. The village takes its name from a toll gate the Bishop of London once set across the road north, and it still trades like a place travellers stopped at on the way to somewhere else: small shops in old fronts, cafes, and pubs along the ridge. No name on the board keeps a home in N6, and escorts in Highgate come out from the central zones, so her journey up the hill runs longer than the usual hour, and the chat carries her exact time. The village is beyond central London, which means the office puts the travel and any minimum to you in writing on WhatsApp first, and the rates carries every length.

On the ground

Highgate in practice

Nearest stations

Walking time

Highgate, 9 minutes. Archway, 12 minutes.

Getting there

Outside Zones 1 and 2, so the office confirms the travel and any minimum in writing on WhatsApp before booking. The window is longer than the usual hour, and the chat carries her exact time.

On the board

Out from town to Highgate

Liana in warm indoor light, glamour and lifestyle portrait, faces softened

Liana28 · Marylebone

Rosa in warm indoor light, glamour and lifestyle portrait, faces softened

Rosa25 · Marylebone

Laura in daylight, glamour and lifestyle portrait, faces softened

Laura25 · Paddington

Luna in warm lamplight, glamour and lifestyle portrait, faces softened

Luna22 · Mayfair

Molly in warm light, glamour and lifestyle portrait, faces softened

Molly24 · Soho

Nancy in warm restaurant light, glamour and lifestyle portrait, no nudity

Nancy30 · Covent Garden

Who comes out

On the board for Highgate

Every name on the board lives in town, so whoever is booked for Highgate travels out to you; the six prints above are a first shortlist for tonight. Any of the twenty eight on the who is free page can be asked for by name instead.

Note 02

Old fronts along the High Street

Highgate High Street follows the crest of the hill, and a good many of its buildings are Georgian, with shop windows let into houses that were built as houses. That sets the scale: narrow pavements, low doorways, and fronts too small for a chain to bother with. What fills them is independent, from food and wine to clothes, cafes and things for the house. None of it is a reason to cross the city by itself; all of it rewards an unhurried afternoon, walked end to end once to look and once more to go back for the thing you passed.

Note 03

Pond Square, as the tills close

Pond Square opens off the High Street, a small open square named after village ponds that were filled in during the nineteenth century. South Grove leads away from it past St Michael's Church, where Samuel Taylor Coleridge is buried.

This is where a shopping afternoon turns into an evening without anyone having to go anywhere. The shops turn their signs round, the square goes quiet, lamps come on in the old houses, and the pubs take over from the tills. An evening that begins with a bag of shopping and ends at a table in the same street is rarer in London than it ought to be; up here it is simply how the day runs, and Highgate escorts dress for that kind of evening when it is the one you describe.

Note 04

Down the hill to Archway Road

Below the village, Archway Road carries the main traffic north and a plainer run of shops, and Highgate station stands on it, so a guest who comes by the Northern line meets the practical end of Highgate before the pretty one. The road was cut in the early nineteenth century to spare coaches the climb through the village, which is why the High Street kept its shape: the traffic went round it. For a longer run of the same kind of shopping, Hampstead across the Heath has a bigger high street, and Muswell Hill along the ridge keeps its Edwardian Broadway.

From The Roundup

Two notes worth reading for Highgate

On the board7 min readSeam hotels, and why a boundary address widens the boardSome of London's best known hotels stand exactly where one zone gives way to another. From those addresses the office can offer companions from both sides, with the same honest arrival time.Open the page On the board6 min readThe ten minute rule for a first evening in an unfamiliar cityA first evening in London goes best where the hotel, the table and the walk home all sit inside ten minutes of each other. That points to Covent Garden, Marylebone or Mayfair long before anywhere famous.Open the page

Asked most often

Highgate, asked and answered

Is the High Street worth the trip up from town on its own?

For someone who prefers small streets to department stores, yes. It is one street and a square rather than a shopping district, and it works best as an afternoon that leads into dinner.

What is the little green just off the High Street?

Pond Square. The ponds that gave it the name were filled in long ago, and it is now a small open space with South Grove and St Michael's Church beside it, quiet once the shops have closed.

Can an afternoon among the shops run straight into the evening?

Yes. Messages are read at any hour, so say where the evening is to begin, at your address or on the street, and she comes dressed for the evening you have described.

One zone either way

Last strip

Say a name and an hour

Write in with the day, the length and the hotel or address in Highgate, and the office replies with a name, a window, and the travel and any minimum in writing before anything is booked.

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