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	Eleanor cross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Eleanor crosses are lavishly decorated stone monuments in the shape of a cross that Edward I of England erected in memory of his wife Eleanor of Castile.
		The crosses were erected at the twelve places where her funeral procession stopped overnight on its route from Harby, near the city of Lincoln, to Westminster Abbey in London in 1290.
		The Northampton cross is located at the edge of Delapré Abbey, where the body rested overnight; the King stayed at nearby Northampton Castle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eleanor_cross (294 words)

	Charing Cross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Victorian Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross and the place from which all distances from London are measured.
		It was one of twelve places where Eleanor's coffin rested overnight during the funeral procession from Lincolnshire to her final resting-place at Westminster.
		The original position of the cross was at the place now occupied by the statue of King Charles I, at the top end of Whitehall, near Admiralty Arch.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charing_Cross (355 words)

	Stony Stratford - Queen Eleanor's Cross
		The Eleanor Cross which stood in a prominent position in the High Street of Stony Stratford, at the north end of the town near the river (see point 8 of the Town Tour), was a monument to the great love between King Edward I and his Queen Eleanor.
		Crosses of this nature were erected in the hope that pilgrims and those passing by would pray for the soul of the Queen and so hasten her journey from purgatory into paradise.
		The Eleanor Cross stood in Stony Stratford at the lower end of the town towards the river Ouse on Watling Way, which is now the High Street.
	www.mkheritage.co.uk /mkm/stonystratford/docs/eleanor.html (910 words)

	Eleanor Crosses
		Charing Cross was one of 12 "Eleanor Crosses" erected by a disconsolate Edward I when his wife Queen Eleanor of Castile died in 1290.
		Eleanor bore Edward 16 children in an unusually happy union for that period of arranged marriages.
		The cross at Charing is a highly imaginative reconstruction of the original 13th century structure.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/eleanor-crosses.htm (377 words)

	H2G2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Eleanor Cross is a monument to Queen Eleanor of Castille.
		Eleanor was the wife of Edward I of England, also known as 'Longshanks', though probably not to his face [He's the one played by Patrick McGoohan in the film 'Braveheart'.
		The cross at Geddington is in the centre of the town and is the only complete one left of the nine raised, although the very top cross is missing.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/pda/A133011 (206 words)

	THE MYSTERY READER reviews: Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross by Kathy Lynn Emerson
		As Susanna nears the center of town, she notices a man drunkenly stumbling atop stone steps at the Eleanor Cross, a monument marking a stopping place of the queen’s funeral cortege.
		Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross, the fourth in the Lady Appleton series, is rich with the details of 1565 England.
		Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross is a fun fast-paced read that will have new readers seeking out previous Lady Appleton adventures and all readers eagerly awaiting her next.
	www.themysteryreader.com /emerson-eleanor.html (556 words)

	Charing Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The 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.
		The one which stands at Charing Cross, in front of the railway station, is a re-located Victorian "copy" (designed by architect Edward Middleton Barry) of the original - the latter having stood where a statue of King Charles I of England is now to be found.
		According to historians, the original cross was not nearly as large or ornate as the Victorian version.
	www.wikiverse.org /charing-cross (332 words)

	History - Waltham Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although famous for it's Eleanor Cross in the centre of the town, Waltham Cross gets it's name from the stone cross brought the the district many years earlier by Tovi the proud in the 11th century.
		The Eleanor Cross was erected by the King Edward I in 1291 to mark one of the resting places of his wife Queen Eleanor's body on it's journey from Harby in Lincolnshire to Westminster Abbey, following her death late the previous year.
		The old cross was surrounded by wires for a while when trolleybuses replaced the trams just before the war, but these fortunately went when motor buses took over in 1961.
	www.leevalley-online.co.uk /towns/wcross/wcrosshist1.htm (419 words)

	Eleanor
		When Eleanor, the Infante de Castile and wife of King Edward, died at Harby in November of 1290, shortly after giving birth to her 17th child, her body was first taken to the nearby St Catherine's Priory at Lincoln.
		Her final journey took Queen Eleanor's body down the Great North Road but the crosses once erected at Grantham and at Stamford are lost.
		The Nene itself must have been crossed at Northampton for the next Eleanor Cross is at Hardingstone, just past the town on the south side of the river.
	www.biffvernon.freeserve.co.uk /eleanor.htm (624 words)

	THE ILAM CROSS TRUST - HISTORY OF ILAM CROSS
		Its design is based on the Eleanor Crosses, with which Edward I marked the stopping places on the last journey of his queen, Eleanor of Castile, from Nottinghamshire to Westminster Abbey in London, after her death in 1290.
		The Oxford Cross took until the spring of 1843 to complete, though the inscription is dated to the laying of the foundation stone in 1841.
		It is forty feet in height, terminating in a very light and graceful ornamental cross: the arrangement and execution of the tabernacle-work on the body of the monument are as tasteful and delicate as can well be conceived by those who have examined ancient specimens of this kind of carving.
	www.the-ilam-cross-trust.org.uk /History/Pages (3801 words)

	MacKinnon, Eleanor Vokes Irby - Australian Women Biographical entry
		Eleanor MacKinnon, a foundation honorary secretary to the New South Wales Division of the Australian branch of the British Red Cross Society in August 1914, remained a member of the state executive and finance committees and a delegate to the central council until her death in 1936.
		Eleanor MacKinnon was involved in a range of activities, which included learning to paint and membership of a number of benevolent and political societies.
		Her major contribution was to the Red Cross Society and she founded the world's first Junior Red Cross division, with its motto, 'the child for the child' and remained its honorary director until 1935.
	www.womenaustralia.info /biogs/IMP0134b.htm (353 words)

	Eleanor Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		What Eleanor did to those children and their mothers was so wrong.
		ELEANOR HALL: To national politics now, and there are indications today that the...
		Eleanor Virginia Collins Theurer, age 95 formerly of Secane, Pa....
	www.wikiverse.org /eleanor-cross (224 words)

	Charing Cross railway station (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The station takes its name from the Charing Cross district of London, which itself is named after the twelfth Eleanor Cross, which stands in front of the station.
		The cross marks the point from which all UK road distances from London are measured, so the station can claim to be the most central in London.
		At the same time, the replica Eleanor Cross was erected, based on the original 13th Century Whitehall Cross which had been demolished in 1647.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Charing-Cross-railway-station.htm (340 words)

	Queen Eleanors Cross
		Geddington Eleanor Cross, a standing stone cross erected at the end of the 13th century in memory of Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I. Queen Eleanor died on 28 November 1290 at Harby, Nottinghamshire, and her funeral procession passed from Lincoln to Westminster in December.
		The cross is situated over a conduit at the junction of three roads in the centre on the village.
		On the south west side of the cross, immediately abutting the lowest step is a conduit house, built in 1769 and restored in 1868.
	pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk /hob.asp?hob_no=346027 (299 words)

	BBC - History Trail - Church & State
		The Eleanor crosses were a series of 12 large stone crosses made to commemorate Edward I's wife Queen Eleanor of Castile, who died in 1290.
		The crosses — which had elaborately decorated bases and large sculptures of the queen - were erected at each of the places where her funeral cortege rested on its journey from Nottinghamshire to London.
		The bases made extensive use of motifs associated with the Decorated style, especially the ogee, which was seen here for the first time.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/lj/churchlj/popup_eleanor.html (124 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Waltham Abbey, Essex, UK - A550801
		The shrine of the cross was said to work miracles and in 1060, Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex and later to be the last Saxon King of England, consecrated a new, larger church on the site after being cured there.
		Edward I and this wife, Eleanor, both lay in state at the abbey for several weeks while their funerals were prepared in London.
		The Eleanor Cross was erected two miles down the road to mark the course of Eleanor's funeral procession.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A550801 (1680 words)

	Eleanor de Castilla (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Eleanor of Castile, from an effigy in Westminster Abbey
		When Eleanor died, Edward had crosses erected at the 12 places where the funeral cortege had rested on its way to Westminster Abbey.
		The cross that is still standing there now (in Charing Cross) was made in 1863, and is a replica of the original.
	www.boazfamilytree.com /gneville/images/sb5c5.htm (91 words)

	Programmes - The Eleanor Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Beautiful music to surround the marriage of Edward and Eleanor of 1254.
		Eleanor's brother was the highly musical king Alfonso el Sabio, responsible for the collection of colourful songs Las Cantigas de Santa Maria.
		Joglaresa combine songs of Eleanor’s Spain with those of Edward’s medieval England.
	www.belinda.sykes.btinternet.co.uk /eleanor.htm (83 words)

	Stony Stratford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The prefix 'Stony' refers to the stones on the bed of the ford, differentiating the town from nearby Fenny Stratford.
		Stony Stratford was the location where, in 1290, an Eleanor cross was built in memory of the recently deceased Eleanor of Castile.
		The cross was destroyed during the English Civil War.
	www.fact-index.com /s/st/stony_stratford.html (247 words)

	Destinations UK - Eleanor Crosses
		He wrote to Eleanor asking her to join him in the north, but she was taken ill on the journey and died in a little village called Harby in Nottinghamshire.
		In London, in the forecourt of the Charing Cross railway station the tall monument is nowadays surrounded by taxis and parked cars.
		The Eleanor Cross in the village of Geddington, just off the A43 between Corby and Kettering is original and maintained by English Heritage.
	www.historic-uk.com /DestinationsUK/EleanorCrosses.htm (449 words)

	The Eleanor Cross Geddington Northamptonshire \| Photo by Aidan O'Rourke Manchester photographer writer website publisher
		The Geddington Cross was put up by King Edward 1 to commemorate his queen Eleanor of Castile who died in 1290.
		He ordered that a series of crosses should be put up marking the places her body rested on its route from Lincoln to Westminster Abbey.
		The most famous memorial to Queen Eleanor is the one in front of London's Charing Cross Station.
	www.aidan.co.uk /photo4454.htm (352 words)

	Eleanor Cross Memorial, Charing Cross - London - UK Attraction
		Charing Cross Station, London WC2 6RQ - England, UK The Eleanor Cross is the reason for the name of the area Charing Cross.
		The area near what is now Charing Cross Station was one of the twelve places that Eleanor’s coffin rested, and a spire was erected at each site after he death in 1290.
		The Charing Cross spire was destroyed in 1647.
	www.ukattraction.com /london/eleanor-cross-memorial.htm (225 words)

	Reviewers Choice Reviews Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross
		In this unlikely plot Susanna, though indicted for his murder, is allowed to travel around the country investigating which of Sir Robert Appleton’s former mistresses is the most liable to have killed him.
		Susanna’s favorite candidate is Eleanor, mother of Robert’s only child, though she finds herself emotionally drawn to both mother and daughter.
		I feel the biggest flaw in FACE DOWN BENEATH THE ELEANOR CROSS is its plot, which has been done all too many times.
	www.reviewers-choice.com /eleanor_cross.htm (468 words)

	What is that song about?
		Tim and Betsy at the Eleanor Cross in Hardingstone
		Eleanor of Castile was the beloved queen of Edward I (Edward Longshanks in the move Braveheart).
		The three triads in each of the three choruses--"The Cross of Eleanor"--pay tribute to the remaining crosses, and the story of their love.
	members.aol.com /contemporaryfolk/newmorning/history.html (411 words)

	tourist information on Waltham Cross Hertfordshire, a vacation and holiday guide from TourUK
		The town derives its name from the stone cross brought to the district in the 11th century by Tovi the Proud, King Canute's standard bearer.
		However, Waltham Cross is more famous for its beautiful Eleanor Cross, a Grade I listed medieval stone monument that stands in the High Street.
		The Eleanor Cross is one of only three crosses to have survived to the present day.
	www.touruk.co.uk /hertfordshire/waltham_cross.htm (284 words)

	rodcorp: At the exact centre of London, Britain's smallest police station
		When Queen Eleanor of Castile died in 1290, Edward I commissioned twelve crosses, each at one of the stopping places on her body's procession from Lincoln to Westminster.
		The original cross was replaced, then demolished (the stone being re-used used to make paving along Whitehall, round the corner), and in 1863 a rather ornate version (not strictly a replica) was put up in front of Charing Cross railway station, a couple of hundred yards away.
		Transport: Charing Cross station is the centre of London for Black Taxis.
	rodcorp.typepad.com /rodcorp/2004/10/at_the_exact_ce.html (932 words)

	LondonTown.com \| Eleanor Cross Road Guide \| Eleanor Cross Road London, EN8, England, UK \| London Streets by Street \| ...
		Eleanor Cross Road is located in the borough of Broxbourne District
		Welcome to our guide for the area around Eleanor Cross Road in Broxbourne District.
		The nearest underground station to Eleanor Cross Road is 'Loughton ' which is about 143 minutes to the South East.
	www.londontown.com /LondonStreets/___eleanor_cross_road_63f.html (102 words)

	Stony Stratford - Point 8 : Queen Eleanor's Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At or near this spot at the end of the High Street once stood a memorial to a beloved Queen.
		When Eleanor, wife of Edward I, died in 1290 he caused a monumental cross to be raised at every point that her coffin had rested on its journey from Lincolnshire to London.
		The cross survived for about 350 years, before being destroyed in the Civil War.
	www.mkheritage.co.uk /mkm/stonystratford/docs/tour/8eleanor.html (97 words)

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