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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:

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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Charing Cross | Charing Cross, London, England | Dunstable | Dunstable, England | Durocobrivis | Edward I | Edward I of England | Eleanor of Castile | History of St. Albans, Hertfordshire | History of St Albans | History of St Albans, England | Stony Stratford

 

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