CHARING

CROSS  , the locality about the west end of the Strand and the north end of Whitehall, on the south-east side of Trafalgar Square, London, England . It falls within the bounds of the city of Westminster . Here Edward I. erected the last of the series of crosses to the memory of his queen, Eleanor (d . 1290) . It stood near the present entrance to Charing 1 According to some authorities, this is a second Charidemus, the first disappearing from history after being superseded by Chares in the Olynthian war . Cross station of the South-Eastern & Chatham railway, in the courtyard of which a fine modern cross has been erected within a few feet of the exact site . A popular derivation of the name connected it with Edward's " dear queen " (there reine), and a village of Cherringe or Charing grew up here later, but the true origin of the name is not known . There is a village of Charing in Kent, and the name is connected by some with that of a Saxon family, Cerring .