When Queen Eleanor died at Harby, near Lincoln, in November 1290, King Edward I ordered her embalmed, and her body was then carried in a somber procession to Westminster Abbey in London. At each place where the procession stopped for the night, Edward had built a memorial cross in her honour. Today only the crosses at Waltham Cross (Hertfordshire), Geddington, and Hardingstone (both Northamptonshire) remain, and the cross at Charing is remembered only in the name Charing Cross.
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