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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
- CharingCharing is a small village in England at the foot of the North Downs. It is sited on the pilgrims way and is one day's walk from Canterbury. Its most famous building is the Archbishop's Palace, which is very original although also in a very dilapidated st (now Charing CrossThe name Charing Cross now given to a district of central London in the City of Westminster, comes from the original hamlet of Charing, where King Edward I of England placed a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile. It was one of twelve places where Ele)
The only three still standing are the ones at Waltham, Northampton, and Geddington. The one in Charing Cross is a copy of the original.
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