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which stood near the site.]] Charing Cross is the name given to 2006 . recognised as the centre of London; distances to London are measured to the location of the original Eleanor cross built at Charing. HISTORY Charing Cross was the last of 12 locations where Eleanor's coffin rested overnight during the funeral procession from Lincolnshire to her final resting-place at Westminster , half a mile away. At each of these, Edward erected an Eleanor Cross , of which only three now remain. The one which stands in front of Charing Cross railway station is a re-located Victorian copy (designed by Architect Edward Middleton Barry ) of the original, which was not nearly as large or ornate as the Victorian version. The cross's original location was at the village of Charing, at the top of Whitehall , at the south of Trafalgar Square . Since 1675 , the site has been occupied by Hubert Le Sueur 's statue of King Charles I mounted on a horse. A plaque there reads: "On the site now occupied by the statue of King Charles was erected the original Queen Eleanor's Cross a replica of which stands in front of Charing Cross Station. Mileages from London are measured from the site of the original cross." Although it has been thought that the name ''Charing'' derived from Fr. ''chere reine'' (= "dear Queen"), it is more likely to stem from the Old English ''cearring'', meaning a bend in the river. (At the site of the village of Charing, coming from Westminster, the Thames makes a dramatic 90-degree turn to the east) 's novel, Brave New World , the ''Charing Cross'' is renamed to ''Charing T'', after the Ford Model T . OFFICIAL USE AS CENTRAL POINT Legislation from the early 19th Century used Charing Cross as a central point for defining its scope. Its later use in legislation waned in favour of providing a schedule of local government areas and became mostly obsolete with the official creation of Greater London in 1965. NEAREST PLACES NEAREST TUBE STATIONS
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