13 Facts About Charing Cross

Charing Cross is a junction in London, England, where six routes meet.

Aforementioned eponymous monument, the "Charing Cross", was the largest and most ornate instance of a chain of medieval Eleanor crosses running from Lincoln to this location.

Since the early 19th century, Charing Cross has been the notional "centre of London" and is the point from which distances from London are measured.

Name of the lost hamlet, Charing Cross, is derived from the Old English word most helpfully spelt cierring, a river bend, in this case thus meaning: in the Thames.

Charing Cross is marked on modern maps as a road junction, and was used in street numbering for today's section of Whitehall between Great Scotland Yard and Trafalgar Square.

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Charing Cross, having been revived, gave its name to a railway station, a tube station, a police station, a hospital, a hotel, a theatre, and a music hall .

In June 1874, the whole of the duke's property at Charing Cross was purchased by the Metropolitan Board of Works for the formation of Northumberland Avenue.

Frontage of the Rounceval property caused the narrowing at the end of the Whitehall entry to Charing Cross, and formed the section of Whitehall formerly known as Charing Cross, until road widening in the 1930s caused the rebuilding of the south side of the street, creating the current wide thoroughfare.

In 1554, Charing Cross was the site of the final battle of Wyatt's Rebellion.

Palace was defended by 1000 men under Sir John Gage at Charing Cross; they retreated within Whitehall after firing their shot, causing consternation within, thinking the force had changed sides.

Eleanor Charing Cross was pulled down, by order of Parliament, in 1647, at the time of the English Civil War, becoming the subject of a popular Royalist ballad:.

Inn and its yard, pillory, and what remained of the Royal Mews, made way for Trafalgar Square, and a new Golden Charing Cross Hotel was built in the 1830s on the triangular block fronted by South Africa House.

The Charing Cross was designated a Grade II* monument on 5 February 1970.