The RouteFrom £250 an hourOutcall only

The Route, a local's notes on the TW postcodes

The Route is where this book keeps what it knows about its own streets. It is not an airport annex and not a list of things to do near a runway. It is a set of notes on Hounslow, Isleworth, Brentford, Twickenham, Whitton and Feltham as they actually are, written for people who are here for an evening, a night or a working week, and who would like to spend it somewhere better than a hotel bar.

It opens with ten pieces. Some are walks: across Hounslow Heath, where a Scottish engineer measured the line that every Ordnance Survey map grew from, and along the Thames from Brentford Lock through Syon Park to the old riverside inn at Isleworth. Some are about eating and drinking: dinner in the narrow lane of Church Street in Twickenham, and the three pubs still pouring on the corners of Brentford's old football ground. Some are purely practical: which Piccadilly line stop serves which streets, why four different London Roads can wreck an arrival time, and how a first hello at the gates of Hounslow Central usually goes. One does the homework on the rugby calendar for you, and one plans a working week on the Golden Mile.

Every hotel, pub and restaurant named in these pages is there because it is worth knowing about, not because it has any arrangement with this line. None of them has. Opening days, menus and prices change, so check whatever matters on the day itself; the guides stick to what a place is, where it stands and why it might suit an evening.

Each piece links on to the companions who know that corner of the borough best, to the kind of booking that fits it and to the next guide worth reading. Any figure you meet here comes straight off the rate ladder, which starts at £250 for an hour, and whatever the plan, Iris confirms it in writing before anybody sets out. More pieces will join The Route over the coming months, one corner of TW at a time.