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The Eleanor Crosses

Geddington, Northamptonshire

Crosses marking each night's rest of a dead queen's funeral journey.

When Queen Eleanor of Castile died in 1290, her grieving husband, Edward I, had her body carried from Lincoln to Westminster. At each of the twelve places where the procession stopped for the night, he built a stone cross.

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When
1290s
Where
52.4400, -0.6800
Group
Mysterious graves

Visiting

In the centre of Geddington village, free to see.

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