Clerkenwell Escorts

Clerkenwell is situated in central London and forms part of the London Borough of Islington. Once known as London's Little Italy, Clerkenwell was home to a large number of Italians living in the area between the 1850s and the 1960s. This East Central London location is an ideal venue to meet one of our glamorous and seductive London escorts.

The Monastic Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem founded its English headquarters at the Priory of Clerkenwell. St John's Gate, which was originally built by Sir Thomas Docwra in 1504, survives as part of a rebuilt form of the Priory Gate. This gateway, erected in 1504, and still remaining in St John's Square, served various purposes after the suppression of the monasteries.

In modern times the gatehouse again became associated with the Order, and was in the early 20th century the headquarters of the St John Ambulance Association. An Early English crypt remains beneath the neighbouring parish church of St John, where the notorious deception of the Cock Lane Ghost, was exposed.

In the 17th century Clerkenwell became a fashionable place of residence for Londoners. Oliver Cromwell owned a property on Clerkenwell Close, just off Clerkenwell Green. Before Clerkenwell became a built-up area, it had a reputation as a resort where Londoners could disport themselves at its spas, tea gardens and theatres. Sadler's Wells has survived, after rebuilding, as heir to this tradition.

The priory of St Mary's a Benedictine nunnery and St James's church marks the site. Preserved in its vaults are some of the ancient monuments. The Charterhouse, near the boundary with the City of London, once served as a Carthusian monastery. The Charterhouse later became a school and almshouse, of which the latter still remains.

Clerkenwell was also the location of three of London’s prisons: the Clerkenwell Bridewell, Coldbath Fields Prison, later renamed to the Clerkenwell Gaol, and the New Prison, later the House of Detention, notorious as the scene of a Fenian attempted prison break in 1867, when it was sought to release prisoners by blowing up part of the building.

Clerkenwell Green is situated at the centre of the old village, close to the church, and has a mixture of housing, offices and pubic houses. The green is dominated by the imposing former Middlesex Sessions House. Originally built in 1782, and extended by the Victorians, it is now used as a Masonic Hall.

The name is something of a historical relic - Clerkenwell Green has not seen any grass for well over 300 years. However, in conveying some impression of its history, it portrays of one of the better-preserved village focal points in what is now central London. In Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Clerkenwell Green is famed for the location where Fagin and the Artful Dodger initiate Oliver into pick pocketing amongst shoppers in the busy market once held there.