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[?]
  
• Westcheap[?]
  
• Charing[?] (now Charing Cross)
  

The only three still standing are the ones at Waltham, Northampton, and Geddington. The one in Charing Cross is a copy of the original.