HampsteadNW3 · outcall only
Hampstead escorts for NW3, where an evening begins while it is still light
Hampstead has spent a century and a half declining to join the city underneath it, and the result is a village on a hill with lanes too narrow for the traffic, a heath at the end of them, and kitchens that wind down earlier than anybody arriving from town expects. NW3 rewards an early start in a way no other postcode on this site does. Come at four in October and you get the light, the lanes and a table; come at nine and you get the last hour of somewhere that was closing anyway.
This page is written around that clock. Below are the houses and rooms worth an hour before dinner, the three hotels the village actually has, the deepest station on the network and what the lift is for, the shape of a booking that starts in daylight, and the women anchored up here. The rates ladder holds in NW3 as everywhere, and the list is a tap away.
Hotels by postcode
Never by name- NW3 6SSHeath Street, Hampstead
- NW3 6AGFrognal, Hampstead
- NW3 3STSwiss Cottage
Nearest platforms
On foot- Hampstead2 min walk
- Hampstead Heath8 min walk
- Belsize Park12 min walk
Lit this evening
Nearest panels to Hampstead
Nora and Vanessa give Hampstead as the postcode they know best, and the 6 panels above are the ones lit closest to it tonight. Any of the 28 on the list can be asked for by name instead.
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An hour before the table
Burgh House stands on New End Square, three minutes from the station, a Queen Anne house with a small museum inside it and a garden behind, and it is the easiest possible first hour of an evening. The Freud Museum on Maresfield Gardens is a red brick house ten minutes from Finchley Road where the study has been kept exactly as it stood, couch and rugs and antiquities together, and one room in it explains a surprising amount of the last century. Keats House in Keats Grove is a short walk down towards the Overground platform and is the quietest of the three.
The Holly Bush sits up the steps off Heath Street, hidden in a lane behind the church, an eighteenth century pub with low ceilings, three small rooms and no music in any of them. It is the other natural opening to an evening here, particularly in winter, and the room at the back with the fire is the one to ask for.
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Three hotels and a village short of rooms
Hampstead has never had many beds and does not want more. NW3 6SS on Heath Street is a small family run place in the middle of the village, a couple of minutes from the station. NW3 6AG on Frognal is a quieter Edwardian house about fifteen minutes downhill, nearer Finchley Road than the High Street. NW3 3ST is the large option, down at Swiss Cottage, and it is the room most guests end up in when they want something with a lobby and a lift.
None of these is a partner of ours and none needs to be; a companion arrives as a guest and nothing about that is unusual. A good deal of the work up here is residential in any case, in the flats along Frognal and the houses behind the High Street, and she is entirely used to arriving at a front door looking like somebody who lives two streets away.
Send the lane rather than the postcode. Hampstead's streets fold back on themselves, several of them are steps rather than roads, and a driver will otherwise leave her at the wrong end of the hill.
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The deepest station on the network
Hampstead station is two minutes from the middle of the village and is the deepest on the Underground, which means lifts rather than escalators and about three hundred steps for anybody determined to be silly about it. It carries the Northern line only. Hampstead Heath, eight minutes east and downhill, is a London Overground platform and the quicker route across to Camden Road or Kentish Town West. Belsize Park, twelve minutes south, is the other Northern line option and often the emptier one.
From the middle of town the honest figure is thirty to forty minutes by train, or twenty five in a car up Fitzjohn's Avenue when the traffic is behaving and quite unpredictable when it is not. Companions up here plan for that rather than around it, which is why a Hampstead booking is best made a few hours ahead rather than a few minutes.
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The village keeps early hours
This is the one thing worth knowing before you choose a time. Kitchens on the High Street take their last tables earlier than town, the pubs empty by eleven, and by midnight the lanes are genuinely asleep. None of that is a drawback if you start at the right hour, and it is why so many bookings here begin at four or five in the afternoon rather than eight.
Ninety minutes at £400 is enough for a house, a garden and a drink. Two hours at £500 covers a walk and a table. Three at £700 does both properly and leaves the ending unhurried, which in NW3 means finishing around eleven with the walk downhill still to come. Tell the desk when you can start and whether a hill bothers you; those two answers shape everything else.
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Companions on the hill
Jasmin, Nora and Vanessa all give Hampstead as their ground. Jasmin prefers an afternoon start and will take you up a lane you would not have found, past three doors she has opinions about. Nora comes up the steps rather than round by the road and knows the heath well enough to name the ponds in the dark. Vanessa begins at the study on Maresfield Gardens and climbs into the village for dinner, and she is firm about eating at eight rather than ten.
From the hill opposite, Karolina and Patricia come across from Highgate in about fifteen minutes. From below, Lucy and Danielle reach NW3 from Kentish Town by road in ten. Everyone else on the list travels up, and the desk will give you the true journey time rather than the hopeful one.
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Over the hill from NW3
East across the heath, Highgate is the other village on the other ridge, twenty minutes by car round the edge and a good deal longer and much better on foot. South east down the hill, Kentish Town has the stage, the mainline and the late kitchens NW3 lacks. South, Camden Town is four stops on the Northern line and keeps going long after the village has gone quiet.
From North Reads
Two sheets worth reading for Hampstead
Cut sheet6 min readEight hundred acres and one place to wait: choosing where to meet on the heathMeet me on the heath sounds romantic and works badly: it has more entrances than anyone can count and almost none of them are lit. The few meeting points that work at dusk, and the ones to avoid in winter.Read it
Cut sheet6 min readThe city switching its lights on, seen from the top of the heathFrom the crest of Parliament Hill the whole of central London lies spread out to the south, and at dusk it lights up window by window. How to get up there without the crowd, and where to eat after.Read it
5 questions, answered straight
Hampstead, asked and answered
Why do you suggest an afternoon start in Hampstead?
Because the village is at its best in daylight and shuts early. An evening that begins at four gives you the lanes, a house, a walk and a table. One that begins at nine gives you the last hour of a place already turning the lights off.
Which hotels in NW3 do companions visit?
The guesthouse on Heath Street, the Edwardian house on Frognal and the big hotel at Swiss Cottage, together with private flats and houses. We hold no arrangement with any of them.
How long does it take to get up here from central London?
Thirty to forty minutes on the Northern line, or twenty five by car up Fitzjohn's Avenue when the road is kind. We would rather quote the honest figure than the flattering one, so allow the longer end in the evening.
Is there much walking involved?
As much or as little as you want. Twenty minutes covers the good parts of the village. Nobody will march you across the heath in the dark, and every companion here owns shoes chosen for a hill.
Can a booking be at a private address rather than a hotel?
Most of them are, up here. Send the lane and the door, since several Hampstead streets are steps rather than roads and a postcode alone will put her at the wrong end of the hill.
Ask on Telegram
A person reads it, not a machine
Walking distance, or close to it
Next along from Hampstead
Highgate hotels
N6Same figures, same windowKentish Town
NW5Same figures, same windowescorts in Muswell Hill
N10Same figures, same windowThe sign stays lit
Give the desk an hour and a street, and the rest of the night is arranged quietly, anywhere from the lock at Camden to the Broadway on the ridge.