The restored cross acts as a focal point within the Borough Offices pedestrianised area which hosts Bishops’ College, Churchgate, SCHEDULED the weekly street market every Wednesday and , EN8 9XB Friday. The monument is easily accessible to visitors MONUMENTS because of its town centre location. Tel: 01992 785555 Fax: 01992 350386 OF BROXBOURNE Minicom: 01992 785581 QUEEN Scheduled monuments in the Borough Website: www.broxbourne.gov.uk Email: [email protected] There are seven scheduled monuments in the Monday – Friday 8.30am – 5.30pm Borough, representing an interesting cross section of structures, features and sites, as the list below shows. One Stop Shops Other leaflets in this series together with a wide Eleanor Cross, Waltham Cross variety of other publications are available from one stop shops. Theobalds Palace, Waltham Cross The Laura Trott Leisure Centre, Windmill Lane, Half Moat Manor House, Cheshunt (moated site) Cheshunt Hoddesdon Library, 98a High Street, Hoddesdon Hoddesdon Park Wood, Hoddesdon (moated site) 123 High Street, Waltham Cross Hell Wood, Broxbourne (moated site) Monday-Friday 9am – 5.30pm (5pm at Cheshunt) Saturday 9am – 1pm Perrior’s Manor, Broxbourne (moated site) All One Stop Shops close at 3.30pm on the last Motte Castle, south of Cock Lane, Broxbourne Thursday of each month for staff training.

This leaflet is one of a series of eight on the scheduled monuments of the Borough. One leaflet provides general information on scheduled monuments whilst each of the others provides details on one of each of the monuments.

To receive relevant e-communications from the Council, please register at www.broxbourne.gov.uk/emailalerts. E-communications are emails that provide information about Council services and events. All information supplied will be processed and held in accordance with Data Protection regulations. June 2016 Leaflet No: ES087 SP160621 Queen Eleanor Cross Waltham Cross HODDESDON Cock Lane

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The three original Queen Eleanor statues were Multi-Storey Car Park removed in 1950-3 to Cheshunt Library from where they were transferred to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 1982. Annually, for 250 years after the death of Queen Eleanor, lessons were read WALTHAM and candles burned around her tomb on the eve of CROSS Eleanor Cross Road St. Andrew. Today her tomb still stands in the apse around the Shrine of the Confessor in Westminster Bus Station Abbey.

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