. Railroadiana. A new history of England, or, Picturesque, biographical, historical, legendary and antiquarian sketches. Descriptive of the vicinity of the railroads . reet—one of therehcs of by-gone days, worthy of a visit from the attention, however, is first arrested by the ancient GothicCross in the market place, about which so much has beenwritten, and which has unconsciously stood (not sat) to paint-ers and sketchers of every generation during many is of a pentagonal form, and has as many effigies in nichesin its upper story. That it was a religious cross the
. Railroadiana. A new history of England, or, Picturesque, biographical, historical, legendary and antiquarian sketches. Descriptive of the vicinity of the railroads . reet—one of therehcs of by-gone days, worthy of a visit from the attention, however, is first arrested by the ancient GothicCross in the market place, about which so much has beenwritten, and which has unconsciously stood (not sat) to paint-ers and sketchers of every generation during many is of a pentagonal form, and has as many effigies in nichesin its upper story. That it was a religious cross there can beno doubt, seeing that a prelate, a saint (probably St. John).and the virgin and child, are amongst the personages sculp-tured, and last, not least, a King. Local enquiry leads only tovague replies as to its origin, for whilst some assert that to beunknown—others inform you it is one of the crosses raised byEdward I., to the memory of his beloved and faithful Eleanor. Very little explanation is required to set thislatter opinion at rest in the negative. Leighton Buzzard issituated entirely out of the line of the ancient Watling Street,. CROSS AT LEIGHTON BUZZARD IX BEDFORDSHIRE RESTORED. i LEIGHTON BUZZARD. 113 which runs east and west about five miles to the northward ofthe town. The Queen died at Hardeley, near Grantham, inLincolnshire, and her body brought to London, to be deposited inWestminster Abbey, rested at Lincoln, Grantham, Stamford,Geddington, Northampton, Stony Stratford, Dunstable (aboutsix miles from Leighton), St. Albans, Walthamand Charing(then a village near London), at aU which places crosses wereerected, of which only three now remain, those at Geddington,Northampton and Waltham. It is only necessary to obseneupon the improbability of the procession with the royal body,making a detour of five miles from the main road, into acount\, then, if we may judge of that fact by what it is now,almost impassable as respects its cross roads. We
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