Escorts in W1D, Soho and Chinatown: who is close, and how soon
Soho Square was laid out in the late seventeenth century, and it is still the largest open ground in W1D, the place where the sky opens out over grass. Everywhere else the postcode is narrow streets, so its views are the long kind: down a street to a lit corner, across a junction to a theatre front, over the rooftops to a tower that stands in the next district.
Three names on the board live in Soho, close to all of it, which keeps escorts in W1D a short trip across the neighbourhood. Between the office's yes and the knock, allow about an hour, more on the worst West End traffic nights; the chat names the minute, and the rates carry each length. The rest is about looking: what the postcode shows on a walk between dinner and the door, and where to stand to see it.
On the ground
W1D in practice
Landmarks on the arrival slip
By postcode, never by nameW1D 3DH, W1D 7DT, W1D 3SE, W1D 3JA.
Nearest stations
Walking timeTottenham Court Road, 3 minutes. Leicester Square, 4 minutes. Piccadilly Circus, 5 minutes.
Getting there
W1DTravel 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 W1D
Who works here
On the board in W1D
The eight prints above are a first shortlist for W1D tonight. Any of the twenty eight on the who is free page can be asked for by name instead.
Note 02
From the railings of Soho Square
The square marks the northern edge of the postcode: a garden inside railings, a half-timbered hut at its centre and a weathered statue of Charles II, carved in his own reign. The gates are shut at night, but the railings leave the view open. Look east along Sutton Row and the concrete tower of Centre Point, built in the 1960s at the top of Charing Cross Road, rises over the corner; look south down Greek Street and the narrow run of Soho leads the eye towards the lights of Shaftesbury Avenue.
Note 03
A lone tower, and a row of theatre fronts
On Wardour Street stands the tower of St Anne's, with its odd barrel-shaped top. The church behind it was destroyed in the Blitz and never rebuilt; the tower survived, and the old churchyard beside it is a raised garden, lifted above the pavement by centuries of burials, from which the street below looks strangely distant.
Further east, Shaftesbury Avenue curves through the postcode, cut through the slums in the 1880s and lined ever since with theatres. The place to take in the row of lit fronts is Cambridge Circus, where the red brick of the Palace Theatre, built in 1891 as an opera house, faces the crossing with Charing Cross Road. It is the grandest view W1D escorts and their guests will find in the postcode, and it asks nothing but a pause on the kerb.
Note 04
Lanterns and screens at the southern edge
Below Shaftesbury Avenue, Chinatown strings red lanterns across Gerrard Street and marks its entrances with Chinese gates, a view at its best after dark. Walk west and the postcode ends at Piccadilly Circus, where the screens on the curved corner stay lit all night and the winged archer on the fountain, known to everyone as Eros, stands over the crowd. From the fountain steps you can look back up Shaftesbury Avenue towards everything you have just walked past.
From The Roundup
Two notes worth reading for W1D
Asked most often
W1D, asked and answered
Is there anywhere in W1D to see the sky properly?
What is the tall concrete tower at the top of Charing Cross Road?
Why does the church on Wardour Street have a tower and no church?
Are the lights at Piccadilly Circus worth walking to late at night?
One zone either way
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Last strip
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