Escorts in Kings Cross, N1C and WC1X: who is close, and how soon
Kings Cross is more than the canal behind the station. South and east of the platforms, across the junction where Gray's Inn Road, Pentonville Road and King's Cross Road meet, WC1X climbs a hill of late Georgian streets that most people off a train never see, and the best short walk for anyone booking escorts in Kings Cross with an evening in hand.
No name on the board lives in N1C or WC1X; the nearest homes are in Covent Garden and Soho, and Covent Garden is three stops down the Piccadilly line. So Kings Cross escorts travel in, usually about an hour from the office's confirmation, longer at rush hour, and the exact time comes in the chat. Every length and its figure sits on the rates.
On the ground
Kings Cross in practice
Landmarks on the arrival slip
By postcode, never by nameN1C 4TB, NW1 2AR, WC1H 8EG, NW1 2AJ.
Nearest stations
Walking timeKing's Cross St Pancras, 1 minute. Euston, 10 minutes. Euston Square, 12 minutes.
Getting there
N1C, WC1XTravel is included across Zones 1 and 2, and counted from the moment the hour is set rather than from when she leaves.
On the board
Nearest prints to Kings Cross
Who works here
On the board in Kings Cross
The six prints above are a first shortlist for Kings Cross tonight. Any of the twenty eight on the who is free page can be asked for by name instead.
Note 02
From the station front to the lighthouse
Start in King's Cross Square, in front of the station. The brick front of 1852 shows the two great arched sheds behind it, with a clock tower between them, and for forty years it hid behind a low 1970s extension; that came down, and the square opened in its place in 2013.
Across the road, on the wedge of land where Gray's Inn Road meets Pentonville Road, stands the Lighthouse Building, a narrow Victorian block with a small lighthouse turret on its roof. Nobody is quite sure why it was put there, and the building was restored with the turret kept.
Note 03
Up the New Road to Grimaldi's grave
Pentonville Road climbs east from the junction towards Angel. It was laid out in 1756 as part of the New Road, London's first bypass, which also gave the city what are now the Euston Road and the Marylebone Road, and the district on its slope takes its name from Henry Penton, who built it up later in that century.
Part of the way up, Joseph Grimaldi Park keeps the grave of the clown Joseph Grimaldi, the most famous of his day. It is marked by bronze tiles laid in the shape of a coffin, and each one sounds a note when it is stepped on, so the grave can be played.
Note 04
The paired villas of the Lloyd Baker estate
South of Pentonville Road, down the slope towards Clerkenwell, Lloyd Baker Street and Wharton Street are lined with houses built in pairs, each pair sharing one broad, low pediment, so the street reads as a row of small temples. Nothing else in central London looks quite like it.
Amwell Street, at the estate's edge, is named after Amwell in Hertfordshire, where the New River begins; the river's old terminus, New River Head, lies at its southern end. From there, King's Cross Road runs back downhill along the buried valley of the Fleet to the station, closing the loop, with St Pancras and Euston a little further west.
From The Roundup
Two notes worth reading for Kings Cross
Asked most often
Kings Cross, asked and answered
Why is there a lighthouse on a building at the Kings Cross junction?
Where is the clown Joseph Grimaldi buried?
What makes the houses on Lloyd Baker Street unusual?
Which way back to the station avoids retracing the walk?
One zone either way
Next along from Kings Cross
Last strip
Say a name and an hour
Write in with a length, a time and the zone you are staying in, and a name from the board comes back with a window attached. That is the whole of the arrangement.