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District in Westminster, London, around
Charing Cross railway station. It derives its
name from the site of the last of twelve
stone crosses erected by Edward I in 1290 at
the resting-places of the coffin of his
queen, Eleanor. The present cross was
designed by A S Barry in 1865.