Charing Cross-country race

The name of Charing Cross (from now on given to important a railway Station and to a district of London) comes from the Hameau of Charing where the king Edouard Ier of England placed a cross in memory of his wife, Eléonore de Castille. This place is often regarded as the Cœur of London: one refers to the other districts compared to their distance from Charing Cross.

It is one of the twelve places where the Cercueil of Eléonore was deposited during one night at the time of the procession since the Lincolnshire until its place of rest, with Westminster. With each one of these places, Edouard set up a Cross of Eléonore, of which only three crossed time. That which is in front of the station of Charing Cross is in fact a copy victorienne (manufactured by the Architecte Edward Middleton Barry) and it also large nor was not as carved as its copy.

At the beginning, the cross was posed at the end of Whitehall, in the south of Trafalgar Square. The place from now on is occupied by the Statue of the king Charles Ier, with horse. One can read on a plate:

On this site from now on occupied by the statue of king Charles was set up original Cross of Eléonore whose counterpart is in front of the station of Charing Cross.

The name Charing Cross comes from an English word old: charing . It indicated the curve of a Rivière. Therefore, Charing Cross is the cross set up in the village where the curve of a river runs . Some think that " Charing Cross" is a deformation of French " Dear Reine".

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