12 crosses london

One of the most popular attractions in London, the year old Abbey has plenty of sneaky details to uncover! It's tough curating a museum of death and destruction. Here are my highlights from an introductory tour London is crawling with ghost stories and gruesome fables, but I wanted to share some genuinely creepy and truly historic places you can explore to get in the Halloween spirit I found it dirty and covered with pigeon dropping.

Me too! Hi Kate. I live 15 minutes from Geddington and the Eleanor Cross. Geddington boasts having the best preserved original cross. This is a great site and have added many if your recommended locations to my places to visit when I return to London for my photo walks. I have photos of the cross uf you care to use them.

Many thanks, Katie. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. The Village of Charing. The Current Cross. Near the top of the monument, there are 8 version of Queen Eleanor.

Where are the other 12? History of Scotland. London History. Castles England Scotland Wales. Stately Homes England Scotland Wales. Monasteries England Scotland Wales. Prehistoric Sites England Scotland Wales. English Heritage. Name the Historic attraction. British History Quiz. This Day in British History. Monarch Mayhem. He must have stopped fighting occasionally as they went on to have sixteen children together!

It appears to have been a happy marriage in that they were rarely apart, Eleanor often travelling with Edward. 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.

Edward was devastated and rushed back south to make arrangements for her funeral. Her body had to be taken back to Westminster in stages, and Edward had a beautiful memorial cross erected in each of the stopping places.

Albans, Waltham, Cheapside, and the best known of all, Charing, then a little village near Westminster and nowadays named after the cross, Charing Cross. The cross is situated off the main road by the church and close to the pretty 12th century bridge and ford over the River Ise.