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.