a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimryKztBsaVo06xQZuKDrLmqhuZb4-Ote3M67xvlMWCi-EWPHExKtzOlsjds54A8t3MiXudcUBWTk1xxg4-2Mlyq2Wc9VhI7uNJzLRpS8iMgGC0GWnMwhuTb9VJabCMPKG_jGXq6FMmFzu/s1600-h/geddington2.jpg"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352361757034108018" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimryKztBsaVo06xQZuKDrLmqhuZb4-Ote3M67xvlMWCi-EWPHExKtzOlsjds54A8t3MiXudcUBWTk1xxg4-2Mlyq2Wc9VhI7uNJzLRpS8iMgGC0GWnMwhuTb9VJabCMPKG_jGXq6FMmFzu/s400/geddington2.jpg" border="0" //aYesterday I wrote that a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2009/06/william-henry-gladstone-went-to-prep.html"Geddington/a has the best surviving Eleanor cross. divbr /divBut what is an a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_cross"Eleanor cross/a? I hear you ask./divbr /divEleanor of Castile was the wife of King Edward I of England. She died at Harby in Nottinghamshire in 1290. Edward followed her body to its burial in Westminster Abbey, and erected memorial crosses at the site of each overnight stop. /divbr /divOriginally there were 12 Eleanor crosses. They were at Lincoln, Grantham, Stamford, Geddington, Northampton, Stony Stratford, Woburn, Dunstable, St Albans, Waltham, Westcheap, and Charing. Today only three - Northampton, Waltham and Geddington - surivive in any significant form./divbr /divHere is a photograph of the Geddington cross from yesterday./div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-6503534327255509193?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div
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