In 1290 Queen Eleanor, wife of King Edward I, died at Harby, Nottinghamshire, and her body was carried to London to be buried in Westminster Abbey. Edward had a memorial cross erected near each religious house where her body rested overnight on its journey to London. This cross at Geddington in Northamptonshire is one of the remaining three. I was brought up at Waltham Cross, which has another of the remaining crosses – hence my interest. Find more about this piece of English history at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_cross, and in the text of my late father’s talk from the mid-1950s.