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High Street, WALTHAM CROSS, EN8 7AS

Erected by King Edward I in 1294, the cross is one of the only three surviving of the twelve that marked the resting places of the body of his wife, Queen Eleanor, when it was taken from Harby in Nottinghamshire, where she died in December 1290, to Westminster Abbey. The cross is now in a pedestrianized zone at the junction of Eleanor Cross Road with the High Street.

This pillar box is situated close to the roundabout opposite the parade of shops.

Looking south across the roundabout in Waltham Cross. The exit of the A1010 to Cheshunt/Waltham Abbey is on the left just out of the picture.

Looking across from the corner of Abbey Road and the A1010 (Monarch Way) towards the roundabout, with the former PNG Vauxhall Dealership building on the left.

PNG, a large car showroom and repair shop for Vauxhalls, which also had a smaller branch in Enfield, went into receivership earlier in the year.

One of the three remaining of the original 12 Eleanor crosses erected by King Edward I to mark the overnight resting places of the funeral cortege of Queen Eleanor, following her death in Harby on November 28th 1290. Architecturally, it follows the same design as the cross at Northampton and the lost crosses of Cheapside and Charing in London, though more Decorated in style. Hexagonal in plan, it rises through diminishing stages of blind tracery with heraldic motifs, through a second tier of six elaborate pinnacled canopies. These house three statues of Eleanor in traditional pose by master mason Alexander of Abingdon, to a third hexagonal tier of blind tracery surmounted by a cross. Waltham Cross has somehow miraculously survived more than 700 years of adversity including Civil War, encroachment by adjacent buildings, road schemes for turnpikes, the misguided intentions of Victorian restorations and bombs dropped during the Second World War. It now stands much restored and rather ignominiously as the centrepiece of a modern pedestrian shopping area.

The building for this branch of HSBC was constructed in 1903 Image At one time this was a through road, but some years ago the area was pedestrianised.

Looking across the roundabout with the exit leading to Cheshunt and Waltham Abbey on the A 1010. The building on the other side of the roundabout on the corner is the former PNG Vauxhall Dealership car showroom and repair shop. The company went out of business earlier this year.

Abbey Road used to be a way of going towards Cheshunt and Waltham Abbey, but has now been blocked off the other end with traffic being taken by the newer Monarch Way (A1010). The building in the centre of the image is a doctors' surgery.