"Charing Cross (Glasgow) railway station Charing Cross (Glasgow) is a railway station close to the centre of Glasgow, Scotland, serving the district of the same name. It is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line. It should not be confused with the Charing Cross station in London. Dating from 1886, it was originally part of the Glasgow City and District Railway, the first underground railway in Scotland. The station was built using the cut and cover method, with the original walls being visible on the open air section at the western end of"
"Charing Cross Charing Cross () is a junction in London, England, where six routes meet. Clockwise from north these are: the east side of Trafalgar Square leading to St Martin's Place and then Charing Cross Road; the Strand; Northumberland Avenue; Whitehall; The Mall leading to Admiralty Arch and Buckingham Palace; and two short roads leading to Pall Mall. It makes an unbroken public space with Trafalgar Square in central London. A bronze equestrian statue of Charles I by French sculptor Hubert Le Sueur has stood there since 1675. The junction takes its name from the medieval Eleanor cross that stood"
"Sarah Brown. This support centre is available for anyone who is affected by cancer in London. In 2009, the centre was visited by Michelle Obama and in October was given the 2009 Stirling Prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects. Charing Cross Hospital Charing Cross Hospital is an acute general teaching hospital located in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom. The present hospital was opened in 1973, although it was originally established in 1818, approximately five miles east, in central London. It is part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and is a teaching hospital of the Imperial College School of"
"Charing Cross Hospital Charing Cross Hospital is an acute general teaching hospital located in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom. The present hospital was opened in 1973, although it was originally established in 1818, approximately five miles east, in central London. It is part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and is a teaching hospital of the Imperial College School of Medicine. It is a tertiary referral centre for neurosurgery, and is a national centre of excellence for gestational trophoblastic disease. It currently houses the serious injuries centre for West London. In recent times, the hospital has pioneered the clinical use of"
"Charing Cross railway station Charing Cross railway station (also known as London Charing Cross) is a central London railway terminus between the Strand and Hungerford Bridge in the City of Westminster. It is the terminus of the South Eastern main line to Dover via Ashford. All trains are operated by Southeastern, which provides the majority of commuter and regional services to south-east London and Kent. It is connected to Charing Cross Underground station and is near to Embankment Underground station and Embankment Pier. The station was originally opened by the South Eastern Railway in 1864. It takes its name from"
"Charing Cross, Lahore Charing Cross, officially renamed Faisal Square (""Faisal Chowk"" in Urdu and Punjabi), is a major road intersection of Lahore, Pakistan, located on The Mall (Lahore). Laid out during the British period, it is named for Charing Cross in London. Until 1951 a marble pavilion at Charing Cross displayed a bronze statue of Queen Victoria, but now the statue's place in the pavilion is occupied by a bronze replica of the Quran. Although it has been thought that the term Charing derived from the French term ""chere reine"" (dear Queen), it is more likely to stem from the"
"monument now known as ""Charing Cross"" in London, in front of the railway station of that name, was built in 1865 to publicise the railway hotel at Charing station. The original Charing cross was at the top of Whitehall, on the south side of Trafalgar Square, but was destroyed in 1647 and later replaced by a statue of Charles I. In the thirteenth century, embalming involved evisceration and separate burial of heart and body was not unusual. Eleanor however was afforded the more unusual ""triple"" burial – separate burial of viscera, heart and body. Eleanor's viscera were buried in Lincoln"
"in the context of Lahore, in 1908 in a publication by G.R. Elmslie titled “""Thirty Five Years in the Punjab""” (1908, Edinburgh). A 1918-19 ‘B&R Report’ refers to it as the ‘Charing Cross Scheme’. Charing Cross, Lahore Charing Cross, officially renamed Faisal Square (""Faisal Chowk"" in Urdu and Punjabi), is a major road intersection of Lahore, Pakistan, located on The Mall (Lahore). Laid out during the British period, it is named for Charing Cross in London. Until 1951 a marble pavilion at Charing Cross displayed a bronze statue of Queen Victoria, but now the statue's place in the pavilion is"
"to the Traveller, serve only to confound him"". William Camden speculated in 1586 that Roman roads in Britain had been measured from London Stone, a claim that was subsequently widely repeated, but that is unsupported by archaeological or other evidence. To the east of the Charing Cross road junction is Charing Cross railway station, situated on the Strand. On the other side of the river, connected by the pedestrian Golden Jubilee Bridges, are Waterloo East station and Waterloo station. The nearest London Underground stations are Charing Cross and Embankment. Charing Cross Charing Cross () is a junction in London, England,"
"London Charing Cross, London Cannon Street, Barnehurst, Gravesend and Dartford. Bexleyheath is an important hub for Transport for London bus services. There are services connecting it with Bromley, Crayford, Dartford, Eltham, Erith, Lewisham, North Greenwich, Orpington, Sidcup, Thamesmead, Welling and Woolwich. Bexleyheath Bexleyheath is a town in the London Borough of Bexley, England, southeast of Charing Cross. It is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Until the early 19th century, Bexley Heath comprised an area of scrub-land with few buildings, although Bexley Heath windmill stood at the corner of what is today"
"Charing Cross via Tunbridge Wells, and one train per hour to Hastings. Etchingham railway station Etchingham railway station is on the Hastings line in the south of England and serves the village of Etchingham, East Sussex. It is down the line from London Charing Cross and is situated between and . The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern. Etchingham station has two platforms linked by a footbridge (with steps on both sides) and a station building housing the ticket office and waiting room. The building dates from 1851, when both the station and the first section"
"Charing Cross tube station Charing Cross (sometimes informally abbreviated as Charing X) is a London Underground station at Charing Cross in the City of Westminster. The station is served by the Bakerloo and Northern lines and provides an interchange with Charing Cross mainline station. It has entrances in Trafalgar Square, Strand and in the mainline station. On the Bakerloo line it is between Embankment and Piccadilly Circus stations and on the Northern line it is between Embankment and Leicester Square stations. The station was served by the Jubilee line between 1979 and 1999, acting as the southern terminus of the"
"Road). Since the early 19th century, Charing Cross has been the notional ""centre of London"" and the point from which distances from London are calculated. ""Erect a rich and stately carved cross, Whereon her statue shall with glory shine; And henceforth see you call it Charing Cross."" The name of the area, Charing, is derived from the Old English word ""cierring"", referring to a bend in the River Thames. The addition of the name ""Cross"" to the hamlet's name originates from the Eleanor cross erected in 1291–94 by King Edward I as a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile,"
"term ""Charing Cross"" (a place in London), used to mean ""horse"" since the mid-19th century, does not work for a speaker without the lot–cloth split, common in London at that time but not nowadays. A similar example is ""Joanna"" meaning ""piano"", which is based on the pronunciation of ""piano"" as ""pianna"" . Unique formations also exist in other parts of the United Kingdom, such as in the East Midlands, where the local accent has formed ""Derby Road"", which rhymes with ""cold"". Outside England, rhyming slang is used in many English-speaking countries in the Commonwealth of Nations, with local variations. For"
"Gerrards Cross Gerrards Cross is a town and civil parish in south Buckinghamshire, England, separated from the London Borough of Hillingdon at Harefield by Denham, south of Chalfont St Peter and north of Fulmer and Hedgerley. It spans foothills of the Chiltern Hills and land on the right bank of the River Misbourne. It is west-north-west of Charing Cross, central London. Bulstrode Park Camp was an Iron Age fortified encampment. The town has a railway station on the Chiltern main line with services to London and the M40 motorway runs beside woodland on its southern boundary. The town name is"
"Waltham Cross Waltham Cross is a suburban former village and now a town in the south of the Borough of Broxbourne in Hertfordshire 12 miles (20 km) north by north-east of Charing Cross in central London. It is in the metropolitan area of London, the Greater London Urban Area. Three of the twelve tall ornate stone monuments named Eleanor crosses (carved and put up within about three years of the death of Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I) are intact, one here, one at Geddington and one at Hardingstone. It was the only one designed by a foreigner, a"
"Kings Cross, London Kings Cross is a district in Central London, England, 2.5 miles (4.8 km) north west of Charing Cross. It is served by London King's Cross railway station, the terminus of one of the major rail routes between London and the North. The area has been regenerated since the mid-1990s with the terminus of the Eurostar rail service at St Pancras International opening in 2007 and the rebuilding of King's Cross station, a major redevelopment in the north of the area. The area was previously a village known as Battle Bridge or Battlebridge which was an ancient crossing"
"Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges The Hungerford Bridge crosses the River Thames in London, and lies between Waterloo Bridge and Westminster Bridge. Owned by Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd (who use its official name of Charing Cross Bridge) it is a steel truss railway bridge flanked by two more recent, cable-stayed, pedestrian bridges that share the railway bridge's foundation piers, and which are named the Golden Jubilee Bridges. The north end of the bridge is Charing Cross railway station, and is near Embankment Pier and the Victoria Embankment. The south end is near Waterloo station, County Hall, the Royal Festival"
"of Abingdon. According to folk etymology, the name Charing derives from French ' (dear queen), but the name probably came from the Anglo-Saxon word ', meaning a bend, as it stands on the outside of a 90-degree bend in the River Thames (see Charing in Kent). The original cross stood at the top of Whitehall on the south side of Trafalgar Square, but was destroyed on the orders of Parliament in 1647 during the Civil War, and was replaced by an equestrian statue of Charles I in 1675 following the Restoration. This point in Trafalgar Square is regarded as the"
"and night routes N9, N15, N21, N26, N44, N87, N155, N199 and N343 routes. Charing Cross tube station Charing Cross (sometimes informally abbreviated as Charing X) is a London Underground station at Charing Cross in the City of Westminster. The station is served by the Bakerloo and Northern lines and provides an interchange with Charing Cross mainline station. It has entrances in Trafalgar Square, Strand and in the mainline station. On the Bakerloo line it is between Embankment and Piccadilly Circus stations and on the Northern line it is between Embankment and Leicester Square stations. The station was served by"
"west, will from 2026/27 be the Central London terminus for the High Speed 2 trainline towards Old Oak Common and Birmingham, and from the early 2030s towards Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds. The One Belt One Road Initiative may one day allow high speed passenger trains to reach Europe from China. The exact routes has not been determined. Kings Cross, London Kings Cross is a district in Central London, England, 2.5 miles (4.8 km) north west of Charing Cross. It is served by London King's Cross railway station, the terminus of one of the major rail routes between London and the"
"combination, with the station moving to the south bank of the River Thames in the case of a road-only replacement. The station was bombed several times during World War II, and was rebuilt afterwards, re-opening in 1951. In the late 1980s, the station complex was redesigned by Terry Farrell and rebuilt to accommodate a modern office block, now known as Embankment Place. Charing Cross Station is located at the western end of The Strand in the City of Westminster, east of Trafalgar Square and northeast of Whitehall. It is close to the Embankment Pier, providing river services along the River"
"official centre of London in legislation and when measuring distances from London. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries several replica Eleanor Crosses were erected, including at Ilam in Staffordshire, Walkden in Lancashire, and the Eleanor Cross, Sledmere in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The most substantial of these is in London, outside Charing Cross railway station. Erected in 1865, a few hundred yards to the east of the original site of the Eleanor Cross, on the Strand, it is not a faithful copy, being more ornate than the original. It stands high and was commissioned by the South Eastern"
"cross has been occupied by a statue of King Charles I mounted on a horse. The site is recognised by modern convention as the centre of London for the purpose of indicating distances by road in favour of other measurement points (such as St Paul's Cathedral which remains as the root of the English and Welsh part of the Great Britain road numbering scheme). Charing Cross is marked on modern maps as a road junction, and was previously a postal address denoting the stretch of road between Great Scotland Yard and Trafalgar Square. Since 1 January 1931 this section of"
"Square in Bridgetown, Barbados, was named Trafalgar Square in 1813, before its better-known British namesake. It was renamed in 1999 to commemorate national heroes of Barbados. There is a life scale replica of the square in Bahria Town, Lahore, Pakistan where it is a tourist attraction and centre for local residents. Notes Citations Sources Trafalgar Square Trafalgar Square ( ) is a public square in the City of Westminster, Central London, built around the area formerly known as Charing Cross. Its name commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar, a British naval victory in the Napoleonic Wars with France and Spain that"
"Camden Town, Kentish Town, Tufnell Park, and Archway. A400 road (Great Britain) The A400 road is an A road in London that runs from Charing Cross (near Trafalgar Square, in London's West End) to Archway in North London. As it does so, it includes a number of Central London's most famous streets and passes some of its most famous landmarks. Starting at Charing Cross, it starts off as the Charing Cross Road, passing over Cambridge Circus before becoming the northern part of Shaftesbury Avenue, Bloomsbury Street and Gower Street in one direction, and Tottenham Court Road in the other. Passing"
"Charing Cross (Hungerford) Railway Bridge in central London, and the railway bridges by Isambard Kingdom Brunel at Maidenhead Railway Bridge, Gatehampton Railway Bridge and Moulsford Railway Bridge. The world's first underwater tunnel was Marc Brunel's Thames Tunnel built in 1843 and now used to carry the East London Line. The Tower Subway was the first railway under the Thames, which was followed by all the deep-level tube lines. Road tunnels were built in East London at the end of the 19th century, being the Blackwall Tunnel and the Rotherhithe Tunnel. The latest tunnels are the Dartford Crossings. Many foot crossings"
"Charing Cross and to London Cannon Street both via Lewisham and as part of a loop service via both Sidcup and Woolwich Arsenal. There are also services to Orpington, Sevenoaks via Orpington and to Gravesend via Sidcup. Hither Green is also served by several Transport for London bus services that connect it with areas including Lewisham, Eltham, Catford, Sidcup, New Cross, Canada Water and Crystal Palace. The Driving Standards Agency runs a driving test centre in Hither Green – one of the largest in south London catering for over 1,000 driving tests each month. Hither Green Hither Green is a"
"commemorated in the name of the Hungerford Bridge, which leads into Charing Cross from the south bank of the River Thames. Hungerford Market Hungerford Market was a produce market in London, at Charing Cross on the Strand. It existed in two different buildings on the same site, the first built in 1682, the second in 1832. The market was first built on the site of Hungerford House, next to Durham Yard, the town house of the Hungerford family. The house had burned down in 1669 as is recorded in the Diary of Samuel Pepys. It was replaced by a new"
"League Club, one of the junior clubs in the Roosters Juniors, is also based near Charing Cross. Charing Cross, New South Wales Charing Cross is a precinct in the suburb of Waverley, part of eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The name ""Charing Cross"" is used to describe the intersection of Bronte Road and Carrington Road and the short shopping strip extending to the east along Bronte Road, and is used as a reference point for the homes and schools located around it. The locality originally called Madden's Corner, was named after Charing Cross, London, England"
"hour to London Charing Cross via Canterbury West. There is one morning service to London St Pancras International along the HS1 Line operated by a Class 395 ""Javelin"" unit. This service departs at 0518. Sturry railway station Sturry railway station serves the village of Sturry near Canterbury in Kent, England. The station is north east of Canterbury West on the Ashford to Ramsgate Line. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern. It is also the nearest station to the town of Fordwich. On the Ramsgate-bound platform, there is a staffed booking office - open only at"
"Chase Cross Chase Cross is a district of the London Borough of Havering in London, England.Chase Cross lies 0.8 miles (1.2 km) East of Collier Row and just under 2 miles North of Romford. The name is thought to come from its position as a crossroads in the chase (""hunting ground"") or Hainault Forest. The forest was cleared for agriculture in the 1850s, before being developed for housing in the 1930s. The B175 is the main road through Chase Cross between Passingford Bridge and the A12 in Romford.The A12 (Eastern Avenue) which runs 1 mile south of Collier Row at"
"Charing Cross was the Hungerford Market, established at the end of the 16th century; and to the north was the King's Mews, a royal stable. The area around the pillory was a popular place of street entertainment. Samuel Pepys records in his diaries visiting the surrounding taverns and watching the entertainments and executions that were held there. This whole area was transformed when Trafalgar Square was built on the site in 1832. A famous inn called the ""Golden Cross"" – first mentioned in 1643 – stood in the former village of Charing. From here, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,"