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Eleanor cross
The Eleanor crosses were stone monuments in the shape of a cross that Edward I of England erected in memory of his wife Eleanor of Castile at the twelve places where her funeral procession stopped overnight on its route from Harby , Lincolnshire, to Westminster Abbey in London in 1290.
Those twelve places were:
- Lincoln
- Grantham
- Stamford
- Geddington
- Northampton
- Stony Stratford
- Woburn
- Dunstable
- St Albans
- Waltham (now Waltham Cross )
- Westcheap
- Charing (now Charing Cross)
The only three crosses still standing are the ones at Waltham Cross, Northampton, and Geddington.
The cross at Charing Cross was destroyed in 1647 and a statue of Charles I was erected on the site in 1675. The replica cross is a copy of the original and was erected at a later date but not in the same location as the original.
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