 The town takes its name from the Eleanor Cross which stands in its centre.At the centre of the town is one of the three surviving medieval Eleanor crosses, memorials completed before the end of 1294 commemorating the over-night resting places of the coffin of Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I, on its processional journey from Lincoln to Westminster Abbey in 1290.It was the only one designed by a foreigner, in name at least, Nicholas Dymenge de Reyns or de Legeri.