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'Charing Cross' denotes a road junction location like The Angel, Islington. Charing Cross Station was named after the junction location not vice-versa. This road junction is still marked on the map as 'Charing Cross', even though it is no longer a postal address. Colin4C ( talk) 11:19, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
The opening sentence reads: "Charing Cross is located at the junction of the Strand, Whitehall and Cockspur Street in Central London, England." However, it doesn't say what Charing Cross actually is. Is it a road? Is it a station? Is it a cross? What is it? Nzseries1 ( talk) 13:29, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
and finally in Brave New World even the name is taken away and it becomes Charing T....-- Richardson mcphillips ( talk) 15:02, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
I was told by my bank manager at (RBS) Drummonds, that their address of 49 Charing Cross (London SW1A 2DX) was uniquely on Charing Cross, not Charing Cross Road. The building is not next to Charing Cross station, it is on the south west side of Trafalgar Square, next to Admiralty Arch, and I suppose, therefore, between Whitehall and The Mall. The point is that at some point there must have been 1-48 Charing Cross, although it is difficult to see where they would have stood as presumably Whitehall has been an open thoroughfare since mediaeval times, but maybe the east end of it was called Charing Cross, and maybe it extended in the area now occupied by the south side of Trafalgar Square. This could be linked to the fact that the original Eleanor Cross site is now a good way 'down' Whitehall. Maybe some London historical expert could add to this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.155.193.120 ( talk) 12:47, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
The article says: "The site of the cross has been occupied since 1675 by an equestrian statue of King Charles I", and later "1865, a replacement cross was commissioned from E. M. Barry by the South Eastern Railway as the centrepiece of the station forecourt; about 160 feet (49 m) east of the original site".
This implies that the monument outside the station is 49 m away from the statue of Charles I, but there is no way that can be true. It's more like a few hundred metres. I'm not sure which is wrong, the distance, or the assertion that the statue is on the original site. 86.151.118.165 ( talk) 21:37, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Now, the eleanor cross picture text says: "The Victorian replacement of the original Eleanor Cross 200 metres (200 yards) away"
Google Maps gives 240 metres [from the equestrian statue]. And metre is not equal to yard: 200 metres equals to around 219 yards, and 240 metres would be around 262 yards...
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'Charing Cross' denotes a road junction location like The Angel, Islington. Charing Cross Station was named after the junction location not vice-versa. This road junction is still marked on the map as 'Charing Cross', even though it is no longer a postal address. Colin4C ( talk) 11:19, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
The opening sentence reads: "Charing Cross is located at the junction of the Strand, Whitehall and Cockspur Street in Central London, England." However, it doesn't say what Charing Cross actually is. Is it a road? Is it a station? Is it a cross? What is it? Nzseries1 ( talk) 13:29, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
and finally in Brave New World even the name is taken away and it becomes Charing T....-- Richardson mcphillips ( talk) 15:02, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
I was told by my bank manager at (RBS) Drummonds, that their address of 49 Charing Cross (London SW1A 2DX) was uniquely on Charing Cross, not Charing Cross Road. The building is not next to Charing Cross station, it is on the south west side of Trafalgar Square, next to Admiralty Arch, and I suppose, therefore, between Whitehall and The Mall. The point is that at some point there must have been 1-48 Charing Cross, although it is difficult to see where they would have stood as presumably Whitehall has been an open thoroughfare since mediaeval times, but maybe the east end of it was called Charing Cross, and maybe it extended in the area now occupied by the south side of Trafalgar Square. This could be linked to the fact that the original Eleanor Cross site is now a good way 'down' Whitehall. Maybe some London historical expert could add to this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.155.193.120 ( talk) 12:47, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
The article says: "The site of the cross has been occupied since 1675 by an equestrian statue of King Charles I", and later "1865, a replacement cross was commissioned from E. M. Barry by the South Eastern Railway as the centrepiece of the station forecourt; about 160 feet (49 m) east of the original site".
This implies that the monument outside the station is 49 m away from the statue of Charles I, but there is no way that can be true. It's more like a few hundred metres. I'm not sure which is wrong, the distance, or the assertion that the statue is on the original site. 86.151.118.165 ( talk) 21:37, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Now, the eleanor cross picture text says: "The Victorian replacement of the original Eleanor Cross 200 metres (200 yards) away"
Google Maps gives 240 metres [from the equestrian statue]. And metre is not equal to yard: 200 metres equals to around 219 yards, and 240 metres would be around 262 yards...
86.115.109.159 (
talk) 16:25, 12 January 2023 (UTC)