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Cheapside Cross

Cheapside Cross was initially built in 1290 as one of many crosses Edward I erected to mark those places the bier of his beloved wife Eleanor rested on its progress from Herdeby in Lincolnshire, where the queen had died, to Westminster; Charing Cross and Waltham Cross are other examples. The cross was destroyed after the Civil War when parliament ordered the taking down of all crosses. It had stood opposite Wood Street.

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