You may be aware of Eleanor’s Cross shopping precinct, off High Street North in Dunstable, but are you aware of who Eleanor was and why she had a cross?

In October 1254 aged just 15, he married Eleanor (Leonor), daughter of Ferdinand III, King of Castile and Leon ... and they were married at Canterbury cathedral in 1299. They had three children - ...

Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England ("Longshanks"), died at Harby in Notts. in 1290. The Queen's body was taken to Lincoln and thence to London for burial at Westminster Abbey.