How many eleanor crosses were there

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. Hi Yes, thank you Katie for bringing our attention to the story of these crosses.

Also, there is one of the crosses in Nottingham itself, weekday cross, and also, not mentioned, Banbury cross, but I had no idea there were a total of twelve crosses. I will keep the location of these crosses in mind, people have kindly mentioned, so if I am nearby, I will pop and have a quick look at these memorials.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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.

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